Hi guys, I'm planning to take up the data engineering nanodegree from Udacity. Any feedback regarding the course is much appreciated. Please advise if it is worthwhile to spend money on it. I'm a noob in data engineering.

So I’m 95 percent through and I need to do both projects however my course has become Really slow and my workspaces don’t load up I’m really stressed that I won’t complete the course on time because of this. I was wondering if there was any fix?

Hello there, recently I just get involved in a course with my personal account on Udacity through a scholarship program. And at the company, I also have another Udacity account to adapt with the company requirements. My question is that can I have 2 accounts at the same time to get the certificates, as I has already verified through my personal account and felt that it may be not be eligible to verify through my company account to get the certificates ?

Can anyone help? It's imperative.

Hey!

I enrolled in the free version of the "Introduction to Machine Learning" course and am new to machine learning. I've finished the first two units, but I'm questioning whether it's worth continuing. The materials seem pretty old and outdated, dating back 9 years!

I enjoyed Udacity so much a few years ago. Recently I got back onto it again to check out some ML stuff. The old videos were still pretty good, but the student support and business practices are awful.

I wondered who is running this place, CEO: Kai Roemmelt.

Kai has more than 18 years of experience in complex situations involving change management, hyper-growth, and restructuring. As President of Udacity he is responsible for the three business units addressing the learning needs of enterprises, governments, and individual learners.

Before joining Udacity, Kai was the managing partner at Best Associates, a mid-market VC and venture builder focused on education technology and healthcare. Prior to this, he worked for the German media, the services and education conglomerate Bertelsmann, and most recently, as Executive Vice President at the Bertelsmann Education Group—where he was part of the founding team. During this time, Kai served as COO and CFO of the portfolio company Hotchalk, Inc., a leading university service provider that was successfully sold to Noodle, Inc in 2020. Kai also served as chairman of the board of WASC accredited Alliant International University, where he led the turnaround of the institution from decline to double digit growth and profitability. Kai also had a leading role in the merger and subsequent integration of the two largest publishing firms, Penguin and Random House.

Kai holds an MBA equivalent from the European business school in Germany and a doctoral degree with high distinction from the University of St Gallen. Kai has lived and worked on six continents.

Not even a technologist. What the hell is he doing here? Another example of MBAs ruining good things.

Could someone please help me with the interview process for the AI Curriculum Dev role at Udacity, along with what type of questions should I expect?

I am attempting to complete the AI for business nano degree. I was wondering if I could get a few email addresses from anyone who wants to help by completing the survey for my final project. ill send a zip containing a pptx, docx, xlsx.

Hi,

Has anyone taken these two nanodegrees. If you have, what is your feedback. Thanks

https://www.udacity.com/course/security-architect-nanodegree--nd992

https://www.udacity.com/course/enterprise-security-nanodegree--nd0035

Regards

Is this the best way to learn business analytics? Any suggestions or experiences?

I am new to Udacity and I am currently enrolled in this course as my first course on Udacity.

https://preview.redd.it/rdzxbacpnabd1.png?width=1898&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c314498fe5bdbe1ae61614e03178b21821cfc56

I am on a verge of completing a project. But I found an error in the finalized notebook which isn't supposed to happen. And that prevents me from submitting a project.

https://preview.redd.it/bdlrdmqznabd1.png?width=1319&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c79eca71ec9a1af78605e23637bb5901338a506

I learned that it was because "Manage Endpoints" permission access is denied. This is the step required in preparing the environment. But I am new to AWS so I follow their tutorial. This is what they show.

https://preview.redd.it/05gnh8r6oabd1.png?width=1216&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a11d5264e6c32f1bcb19c9c76603a77f6f9552c

But when I do it practically, (following all the steps correctly, and I have tested it multiple times) this is what I can find. Two permissions are missing. I assume it is due to update in AWS services. But this causes me not able to build permitted environment.

https://preview.redd.it/m843wwsfoabd1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=48ea05c990dcb0d5348e48f92da3a521365cdee1

Despite the quality of the course, the complexity of settings, the tutorials ain't up-to-date and there is no one to talk to. I have spent a lot of time on other learning platforms like Coursera, and there are always someone giving solutions out there with discussions. So I clicked on help but guess what? It redirects me to the very same page. I am so much frustrated.

https://preview.redd.it/ky4mebkxpabd1.png?width=283&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1431a72b04d19b41e73217f6ee321da7a41392d

Sorry for venting out, I really do not know what to do next. The platform is horrible.

I noticed some courses are very interesting like robotics, ML/AI. Should I pay monthly subscription to access those? Lots of bad reviews in this channel..

I wanted to buy the machine learning devops nanodegree program. Might be a bad idea, but seemed like a good opportunity for me. My company would pay for it. Anyway, my problem is that I can't buy it. I've been trying for days, but when I click on the enroll now button, the link points to checkout, but I get redirected to a support article about checkout.

Very annoying. Support is useless. I couldn't even get to talk to a human. I don't have time for it, but the support chat also worth its own rant.

Am i alone with this problem? I am also from central europe btw. But dont see any error or warning.

My account has currently been blocked due to plaigiarism and I am unable to submit any files. When I reached out to support staff they informed that they would conduct and investigation and get back to me in 5 days. It has been 6 days and I have not received any email. I have tried writing complaints and reaching out to the staff but neither helped. The support tickets have not been answered, even those which I have sent a week back. I have tried chatting with a representative but when I try to reach out I get an error message instead. I am not sure what I can do here. I would wait ideally, however my subscription ends soon and I would not like to invest more money into a course as it is a substantial amount.. When do I know that the investigation has been conducted?

No, I do not live in Narnia. Just received email stating, that Udacity will cancel my Nanodegree due to the fact that I'm customer from Central Europe. Also I will not be able to enroll in any other Nanodegrees in the future.
Udacity is going downhill and I tend to think it will go bankrupt soon.

Udacity revoked my static access to my completed Nanodegree course, and asked for hundreds $ to recover it

I graduated from ‘AI for Trading’ Nanodegree in 2021 and gained permanent static access (according to their policy at the time of my subscription and also of current) to the course material after spending hundreds of $$$ and tons of hours taking the course.

Right now Udacity told me I’m no longer allowed to access the course after they changed their subscription model in September 2023. They are asking me to pay another hundreds $$$ to regain what I already paid for and what they promised me at the beginning.

Even funny and ridiculous is they were offering me 30% off discount to re-activate my access with an apology of their inability to adhere to their own policy, however their website are offering 40% discount to everyone else lmfao!

If you are thinking paying hefty fees for theri overpriced courses, stop right now because they could take away what you paid for and exploit more money from you.

https://preview.redd.it/jpwuqt7uvl1d1.png?width=813&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f78cd7c89d0d1427933b35f3c5e13fa65a246fe

https://preview.redd.it/9ht64suvtl1d1.png?width=810&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe1525ce912a92886ef265c82b021b6b27f0f848

Hey has anyone completed any of the following courses? I'm about to take them soon and I just wanted to map out approximately how long it'll take me to complete all of it. Thanks for your time.

1. Introduction to Data Science
2. Data Wrangling
3. Data Analysis with R
4. Machine Learning
5. Data Visualization
6. Machine Learning DevOps

Slight rant: the Bertelsmann scholarship for the nanodegree was literal bologna

I finished the entirety of the course in maybe 30 minutes, 100%. All stuff I already know.

Get to the final, finish it in 3 minutes both times, 100% it. The final doesn’t work the first time. Final wasn’t based on anything whatsoever from the courses, was literally random brain teasers and some high school algebra.

All for them to tell me I wasn’t accepted? At least I didn’t have to exert myself

That was easily the most annoying sequence of events from an educational institution I’ve ever experienced

/rant

Hello All,

Everyone ready for the final test tomorrow?

Has anyone noticed the service quality going down significantly for the past several years? There's been more and more technical issues, like error when submitting a project or files that get reset among other things. I also kept getting mentors that are impatient, unhelpful, and just super rude. It didn't use to be like this.

Also the quality of the course is also going downhill, like failure to mention prerequisites before student joining a course. I get that these prerequisites are free but when you fail to mention them, it will add to the time of completion. The course subjects can also be quite sporadic, all over the place.

I'm not sure why this is the case with Udacity, but it made me look elsewhere. Some places are just better quality overall, provide more value and available on mobile.

I know it says about 3 months, but I’m looking to get through it in a month. Approximately how many hours total is the course so I can prep?

I have started the program and have reached their Object Oriented Programming section. Would love to have a study buddy as it makes it more fun to do the course with.

​

Anyone willing to join?

Hello,

I'm new to the world of Nanodegrees, and I have a few questions:

1. Does the payment cover a specific period where I can take as many courses as I want, or is it dedicated to a single course?
2. If the payment is for one course, is it a one-time fee or a monthly payment until the course ends? If I don't finish the course, what happens?

I would be very grateful to anyone who could answer these questions!

Bertelsmann Scholarship 2023

Is doing "AI programming with Python - Nano degree" worth it?

I am an intermediate learner of AI/ML and familiar with Python programming. Currently, looking for a job in ML field. So, I am just ensuring so that I don't waste my time doing it.

Another thing is most of the people doing well in the ML field suggest doing "Coursera" courses like "DL specialization". What is the difference between doing a Udacity nanodegree and a Coursera specialization? I mean, what are the advantages and disadvantages of both cases?

​

They told me I got Agile SWD, but as of today I got an email saying I'm in the AI Python Programming track--Not complaining but... what? lol

Has this happened to anyone else ?

It doesn't look like it's the challenge course either, it looks like it's just straight up the nanodegree program and is labeled as such.