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About the Course

This is the third course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. As you continue to build on your understanding of the topics from the first two courses, you’ll be introduced to new topics that will help you gain practical data analytics skills. You’ll learn how to use tools like spreadsheets and SQL to extract and make use of the right data for your objectives, and how to organize and protect your data. Current Google data analysts will continue to instruct and provide you with hands-on ways to accomplish common data analyst tasks with the best tools and resources. Learners who complete this certificate program will be equipped to apply for introductory-level jobs as data analysts. No previous experience is necessary. By the end of this course, learners will: - Find out how analysts decide what data to collect for analysis. - Learn about structured and unstructured data, data types, and data formats. - Discover how to identify different types of bias in data to help ensure data credibility. - Explore how analysts use spreadsheets and SQL within databases and data sets. - Examine open data and the relationship between, and importance of, data ethics and data privacy. - Gain an understanding of how to access databases and extract, filter, and sort the data they contain. - Learn best practices for organizing data and keeping it secure....

Top reviews

DD

Jul 4, 2021

Thank you for the course! It's a nice introduction to SQL and Google Big Query as well as the concepts of data privacy and security. The course also offers some great tips for professional networking.

RA

Aug 10, 2022

The lessons were easy to follow through and the explanantions were easy to understand. The hands-on practices also helped improve hands-on skills with the data analysis tools introduced in this course

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By Preena M

Sep 22, 2022

For me it was an entirely new topic.But after this course I have learnt so many new topics that will help me acheive my career goals.Thank you Google and Coursera community for the opportunity you have given.

By Clare

Apr 15, 2022

Very useful information, however, sometimes while following along in my own account on a data website, I am unable to do a certain task and I am not sure how to ask for help or continue practicing on my own.

By Erastus W

Nov 21, 2022

I have learnt interesting concepts such as SQL , working with Big query , different data types and sources and how to better sort and filter data to ensure that am only working with the required data set.

By Badmus N O

Aug 11, 2022

it contains all neccessary tools, learning materials|aids required to become a data analyst. i avoided the last star because the course dosent provide any regards or kind of learning to python and power BI.

By Deleted A

Apr 9, 2022

I learned a lot in a new field of knowledge. As a professor, I know pretty welll that the success of academics is told by successful students who acquire new ways of understanding reality.

Great experience!

By Yvan S

Oct 13, 2022

Tuve muchos problemas con Chrome para acceder a Bigquery y luego las bases de datos no se podían cargar, por problemas del país origen de los datos.

Escribo desde Venezuela, no se si el problema es ese.

By Amethyst M

Jan 22, 2022

I want to give this 5 stars, but the instructions for BigQuery were out of date, so I was not able to complete some of the hands-on assignments. I was able to finish the course by completing the quizzes.

By Norman C L

Jul 8, 2021

Overall very informative and touches on important aspects about data and the related issues. Would be nice to include more hands on practices with SQL or Spreadsheet in comprehensive and progressive way

By Анна П

Jun 10, 2022

The course material was ok but the instuctor was sooo dull and boring. At some moments I even thought that I could not finish it because it was too hard to get the information the way it was presented.

By Henry O

Mar 12, 2023

The videos and reading materials in this course were simplified for easy understanding and assimilation by the students and the content built to equip the student with relevant data analysis skills.

By Stephanie T

May 21, 2023

Overall it was a good course, but I found myself disengaging a lot because of the moderator, she always had a flat tone when speaking and is totally visible that she's reading from a teleprompter.

By PAVAN K

Apr 12, 2021

This was a great course and it was in flow with the second course of the specialization. Gave good insights about bias, ethics, and protecting data. It also involved a lot of hands-on activities.

By Manit S S

Dec 13, 2022

This was probably the most in-depth course yet, it was refreshing and challenging. The videos can be reduced, reading has a much better impact, and Scribe can be utilized in the materials more.

By Neil S

Dec 31, 2021

I liked that some assignments had me use SQL and get more comfortable using it. However I would have liked more assignments using SQL and Sheets to get more practice. Otherwise was pretty fun.

By Bala N

Mar 15, 2023

The material itself was very good however the videos for hands on work was sometimes inconsistent with what one found in the software (the user interface). At times this was a bit frustrating.

By Pedro F

May 12, 2022

Great course, covering complex themes like SQL and also lighter ones like social connections and mentoring. Using BigQuery was difficult to keep up with the videos but in the end it was great!

By kushal c

May 8, 2022

Great course. Only one more thing that I would recommend is to use a single example and build up on the same thoughtout the course from working on it in excel to even querying the same in sql.

By SUBHASISH P

Jul 4, 2021

Too many obvious information for a person who has prior experience with data. Please cut the course short for those who already have grip over these concepts. Anyways, it is helpful and great.

By Yusuf Y

Oct 19, 2022

Quite nice, my only complaints were that the examples regarding Google Cloud/BigQuery were outdated. This wouldn't be too much of an issue were both platforms not created/endorsed by Google.

By Rachit B

Feb 19, 2022

There is no alternative to discuss doubts with anyone except for discussion board which is not that interactive as well. Many doubts and many queries remain unanswered. Course is good so far.

By oscar k

Jan 3, 2023

Les cours est fantastiques mais je trouve le professeur qui a un rythme très accéléré en parlant. je suis francophone et j'essaye de faire un effort pour le suivre.

En general, c'etait super.

By Success O

Aug 18, 2023

It's a really interesting course, I enjoyed it, I sincerely learnt a lot from it😋😋, I thought it was going to dig deeper into SQL, well, let's see the next step of analysis - Processing🔥

By Tarokhfallah

Mar 19, 2022

This course was good but not as well as the former courses, because it was so simple and doesn't teach useful things for data science mostly.

Thank you Coursera and Google for your support!

By Manas G

Apr 23, 2023

Getting in Depth and Learning a lot about the ways to explore new Data and how does Big Query and other tools of SQL work. Getting introduced to Excel and its importance in handling Data.

By Daniel A

Oct 10, 2023

I had some issues using BigQuery as certain sections continued to error out. If I wasn't already familiar with SQL queries I would have had a difficult time with this part of the course.