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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

RA

Aug 11, 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

KG

Apr 1, 2024

What an amazing course for data analyst. This course not only offer technical skills but also soft skills we should have as data analyst. I would like to thank Googlers and Coursera for this course.

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By Alexandra

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Sep 13, 2023

Big Query sandbox videos and instructions DO NOT match the current interface. I can't even finish this course because of it. I'm absolutely frustrated, feels like a waste of all of the time I've spent in this program because I can't move forward now. I expected better from Google.

By Deepti P

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Dec 2, 2022

the kaggle section is not aptly explained. also the BigQuery video section had problem with we as a course student not having that public data set in system, so could really not do practical task mentioned

By Kris M

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Apr 11, 2022

Week 3 is so awful, that I am giving this course one star before even finishing it. You have students considering dropping the course because of the issues. It needs to be fixed immediately.

By Zaheer Y

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Sep 4, 2023

Support was very poor. I had an issue where the video and actual working on BigQuery wasn't matching up. The course took me longer than expected, and support was helpful at all :(

By Sarah J

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Oct 18, 2022

There is very little practical information contained in this course. I am extremely disappointed and don't feel this has helped me learn how to prepare data at all.

By FRED F

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Jan 17, 2022

Redundant.

Instructor quizzes arranged in such a way as to be intentionally tricky.

Not clear, not instructive, distracting style

By Ck P

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May 23, 2022

I am having trouble with big query and SQL

missing things like the run buttons and on the left side the BIGQUERYPUBLICDATASETS

By Aidan L

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Feb 13, 2024

This course does not teach data analytics (how to add value with data analysis). It teaches tools used in data analytics.

By Nick s

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Aug 9, 2023

not updated, had to find material to fill the gaps for not updated. no support for the google team. poor test quality

By Ashraf S

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Sep 24, 2022

I could't complete my assignment as the dataset is not responding as required bigquery-public-data

By Alexander T

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Apr 11, 2025

Course is over-simplified. Author spent way to much time to create new naming conventions.

By Antione W

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Jan 23, 2023

all information isn't available in bigquery. Makes it hard to do quiz and weekly exam

By Martin S

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Aug 8, 2023

Among the poorest courses and instructors ever encountered.

By Jonathan H

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Aug 22, 2021

Poorly executed, poorly structured, and poorly verified.

By Mirza Q S

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Jan 21, 2025

Not very informative . its boring no practice

By Kemar N

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Oct 6, 2023

Big Query section is very confusing

By Harpreet K

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Dec 3, 2022

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