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About the Course

Ready to start a career in Data Analysis but don’t know where to begin? This course presents you with a gentle introduction to Data Analysis, the role of a Data Analyst, and the tools used in this job. You will learn about the skills and responsibilities of a data analyst and hear from several data experts sharing their tips & advice to start a career. This course will help you to differentiate between the roles of Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and Data Engineers. You will familiarize yourself with the data ecosystem, alongside Databases, Data Warehouses, Data Marts, Data Lakes and Data Pipelines. Continue this exciting journey and discover Big Data platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, and Spark. By the end of this course you’ll be able to understand the fundamentals of the data analysis process including gathering, cleaning, analyzing and sharing data and communicating your insights with the use of visualizations and dashboard tools. This all comes together in the final project where it will test your knowledge of the course material, and provide a real-world scenario of data analysis tasks. This course does not require any prior data analysis, spreadsheet, or computer science experience....

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BM

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Good informative course, could be a little more interactive. While each section had quick test at the end, it would've been nice to have had more engaging questions and activities throughout.

HA

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Great general and broad information on data analytics. Gives good ideas and examples of career paths that can be followed. I especially liked how it ranked the various careers and specializations.

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By Amit C

Apr 29, 2023

nice

By ASHRAF A I

Mar 29, 2024

Ok

By Khushboo

Mar 1, 2023

By janneth a e d

Aug 9, 2022

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By Ms. W

Jun 25, 2024

I greatly appreciate the time taken to create this course. I did not feel it was relevant to Data Analytics. This course was heavily-focused on the technology used for data analytics, not even the software, like SQL. It kept focusing on what technology data analysts use and would go into painful detail and redundancy about basic terms you don't need to use, like data marts. I've had an internship before in data analytics. They're not IT people. They get a software, learn how to use it, and the rest is about excel and math. I was unclear why this course spent so much time going over the what a data warehouse is, for example. I felt like I was being trained more on how to shop for data analysts or how to be a database administrator instead of a analyst. The course was too redundant for me and felt irrelevant.

By Jenna M

May 24, 2022

Very rote learning focused - was essentially an exercise in memorisation. The interviews with data professionals were good as it broke up the monotone voiceover a bit. Would have been much more valuable if I'd had a chance to actually use some of the data skills on a sample data set or saw this happening in action through a recorded video that brought it to life. I found the information about the different types of apps and software packages (e.g. IBM Watson, SSPS, Tableau etc) to be particularly difficult to absorb - without having ever seen any of these in action, it's difficult to understand their differences and how they're used. Just providing a logo and some dot points about them did not help me to differentiate one from the other or understand their usability.

By jbrandt

Feb 18, 2022

basic information for data analyst. If you are already familiar with programming such as SQL, Python etc. then this first intro course will be a breeze. All it is is just videos then a quiz. No programming or anything. It is broken into 5 "weeks" but each week can be done in less than an hour if you already know the basics.

By Tarik G

Jun 7, 2023

To be honest, this course was not what I was expecting. For sure this course has been designed for beginners and it will give you very basic idea about data analysis. I was expecting this course to be more practical.

By Ahmed A

Jul 9, 2021

too boring, very broad course covering definitions and listing the jargoon used in this field. Lacks any real hands on experience on the subject.

By ALEKSANDAR G

Jun 4, 2023

First to notice was sound quality was poor. Find bug and it was really anoying. Overal not great.

By Julienne o S

Nov 7, 2023

Je souhaiterais que le cours soit bien détaillé

By Lavi P

Nov 9, 2022

just the introduction and tools awareness

By Ali A

May 8, 2024

need more examples or case study.

By Tomas K

Mar 12, 2024

Somewhat boring.

By Maxime A

May 1, 2023

Too much talking

By Massimililiano P

Oct 31, 2022

Too water down

By Nannette H

Jan 9, 2021

Waste of time.

By Deleted A

Oct 6, 2022

Bad course

By Majid M

Dec 28, 2022

nice

By zainab

Mar 29, 2022

good

By Sanika A S

Jul 29, 2024

NA

By Irina S

Sep 6, 2024

The content of this course was poorly structured and presented alongside commentary from an odd assortment of "experts." As someone with expertise in a technical field, I found the excessive number of definitions, classifications, and tools/software overwhelming, even for an experienced learner. Expecting a beginner to absorb all of this information at once seems highly unrealistic. As a college professor, I can confidently say that this is not an effective way to introduce foundational concepts to those new to the field. I was also not impressed with the brief introduction of statistical concepts, some of the terms were being used incorrectly. Additionally, the course had a distinct business-oriented focus, giving the impression that the primary goal was making more money, rather than genuine understanding. This approach diminished the joy of learning and made the material feel disconnected from the broader purpose of education. Very disappointed.

By Arlin A

Jan 30, 2022

Awful because of the peer-reviewed assignments. This shouldn't be a thing because markers (even though they're given a rubric and told not to be harsh) are harsh and make this whole learning process uninteresting and unnecessary because you can fail even if you're right. Just because they didn't understand it or I didn't word it in the way they wanted (it's in the way the rubric's stated and because of the rubric, I know I'm right), I get marked down for it. Unbelievable. Most likely won't be continuing this course on Coursera because what's the point if I'm going to be marked down by lazy peers and not given constructive feedback by actual teachers?

By Debra D T

Jan 23, 2021

I'm not sure why this specialization still appears when I have canceled this subscription and the cancel option no longer appears in the upper right-hand corner. I do not want to be charged for all courses I tried during the trial period. Why the hell you all don't have a direct number to customer service?

By Jeremy S

Sep 4, 2023

Requires an irritating, and in my case fruitless, ID verification that simply didn't work. I eventually gave up. This course is very superficial anyway; just videos of very basic concepts and a "peer reviewed" test. Not recommended.