Learner Reviews & Feedback for Computational Social Science Methods by University of California, Davis
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AA
Mar 23, 2021
This introduction course of CSS Methods is nicely structured. Prof. Hilbert and the others are great presentations. I enjoyed the course and will definitely continue to the next course.
TR
Feb 6, 2021
The course was very well planned. The course does not need any prior specialization and anybody with diligence and intent can acquire the skill taught through this course with ease
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By Robbie C (
鈥Apr 17, 2020
Great content! Quiz questions need to be reconsidered, and more projects would be useful
By Muhammad I R
鈥Nov 24, 2023
Overall a good course, Best part is web scrapping.
By Bonny
鈥Sep 13, 2021
I鈥檓 so confused by all the glowing reviews of this course. Am I taking a different course than everyone else? Perhaps my style of learning differs from most, but I鈥檝e found this course ridiculous at times (with multiple in-video quiz answers revolving around silliness like, 鈥淲ait, I wasn鈥檛 paying attention鈥.!!!!鈥 And full of grammatical and spelling errors, I鈥檓 assuming to mimic text speak. Casual doesn鈥檛 even begin to describe the teaching style. It鈥檚 hard to follow the instructor as he goes off on tangents that have nothing to do with the course. There鈥檚 a lot of repetition for things that don鈥檛 require it (like what we鈥檙e going to cover). If you鈥檝e got epilepsy or can鈥檛 handle lots of flashing, don鈥檛 watch the videos - there鈥檚 a lot of it, unnecessarily, from stock images. I repeatedly felt like I was in a science world presentation for youth with lots of smoke bombs and 鈥渙oohs鈥 but it all covered up the actual knowledge. I can鈥檛 imagine this course would ever be taught at university鈥 and if it was, I鈥檇 ask for a refund. I ended up reading the transcripts of every video and ignored 90% of it. Much of it was nonsensical. I understand the main instructor has English as a second language, which I love, but the phraseology left much to be desired. I鈥檓 older than the instructor, but I felt like I was back in high school with the 鈥渃ool teacher鈥 who just wanted to be liked, and did anything to keep students engaged with a topic that isn鈥檛 particularly engaging. The difference here is that anyone taking this course chose to; we all need measurable skills to take away from a course and specialization like this. Smoke and mirrors, off topic and meandering 18-minute videos don鈥檛 cut it.
By Juan S A D
鈥Jun 15, 2021
Many of the general introductory videos were repetitive and did not provide new or useful information. There were many suppositions about the theory of knowledge and even labor theory. Martin Hilbert should revise his theoretical foundations.
By Belle B
鈥Oct 18, 2020
I wish that there would be safer ways to practice the webscraping assignment haha perhaps an existing dataset?
By Rashika R
鈥Mar 6, 2023
Most terrible & useless course I have come across on 糖心vlog官网观看 ever. They don't touch the topic of computational social science until the fourth module. The lecture in the 4th module is verbose. I can get more informaiton on the subject from wikipedia and youtube. The 3rd module teaches how to scrape the web for data. I thought this could be one useful takeaway from the course. However, the scraper API that they want me to install asks for permission to use and change all my website data on Google Chrome. I don't trust that API. I do not recommend this course for anyone interested in learning anything serious here. If you want an overview of the topic, there are plenty of free resources.
By Jianlei Z
鈥Aug 28, 2021
be care with the lier at opening, he use the false data to show his purpose. and There are a few in planted advertisement. the video is sponsored by business, but not explicit show the sponsors.
By Mart铆n A
鈥Jul 21, 2025
The content is great. However, the person who decided to include a "peer-graded" exercise ruined the course. No one bothers to review your work, and that's why you don't receive a certificate.
By luisa d
鈥Jun 13, 2020
I ALREADY WROTE TO SUSPEND THIS COURSE FOR A WHILE BECAUSE I AM TOO BUSY. WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME THE PAYMENT ???
By Naveen A
鈥Aug 2, 2021
why it is nit showing the unsubscription option