

Some of them are absolute gems, but most I probably wouldn't hire if they came as candidates to my desk.

I'm not finding the network particularly valuable.Especially if you're coming from a cold start, you'll need to supplement a lot with Google and StackOverflow searches, and outside materials.If I'm coming from a cold start, the first month would have been really rough. Not enough where I could actually built anything meaningful, but enough that I wasn't being overwhelmed with new information every 5 minutes. I basically breezed through the first couple months because I've worked extensively in Excel and had about 2 years of on-and-off self-taught coding. The learning curve is really steep if you have no exposure to coding or analytics.If you are coming from a baseline of zero, 20+ is probably more realistic. I spend between 10-15 hours on it any given week outside of class.You won't great great at anything over the course of the class.My instructor and subs so far have been pretty solid. The content and curriculum is pretty good.Heads up, I'm already a data analyst with a few years experience with pretty extensive exposure to SQL and Excel, I took the course because work offered to pay for about half of it and I wanted to learn Python and a few of the other stuff covered (NoSQL databases, CSS/Javascript, APIs, hadoop / ML).

I'm positive this ( ) is run by Trilogy as well. It's the UC Berkeley Extension one, but it's run by Trilogy Education, who creates, administers, and licenses these courses for universities.
