This was my first course. I had prior knowledge (0 to 5):

• ML: 1.5
• Big data: 0
• Python: 3.5

Considering the above, this course was pretty time consuming as many things were new to me. The heavy load was concentrated upon homeworks and project, all of which were done in Python. In homework/project times I expended pretty much all my spare time working on them reaching easily 50+ hours/week. I learned the basics about big data paradigm which was the reason I took it in the first place. After finishing, my knowledge is:

• ML: 2
• Big data: 2
• Python: 3.7