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About the Course

This is the fifth course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore what it means to actually analyze your data. You’ll take what you’ve learned up to this point and apply it to make sense of the data you’ve collected. You’ll learn how to organize and format your data using spreadsheets and SQL to help you look at and think about your data in different ways. You’ll also find out how to perform complex calculations with your data to address business objectives. You’ll learn how to use formulas, functions, and SQL queries as you conduct your analysis. 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: - Learn how to organize data for analysis. - Understand the processes for formatting and adjusting data. - Explore how to aggregate data in spreadsheets and by using SQL. - Use formulas and functions in spreadsheets to make data calculations. - Learn how to complete calculations using SQL queries....

Top reviews

PB

Dec 23, 2022

Very good and useful practice of SQL. The JOIN party is pretty hardcore so I definitely couldn't master it but got enough of an understanding where I could learn quickly with some on the job training.

TK

Jan 6, 2022

An excellent course for learning analysis techniques using Spreadsheets and SQL. Recommended for all engineering and data science students as well as for those managing businesses and human resource.

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By Maggie K

Nov 25, 2021

Phenomenal course and course instructor! You have made the complex SQL queries quite easy to understand and follow through. Great job!

Notably, some of the video lessons had very low volumes.

By Cassandra B

Apr 1, 2023

I was disappointed in the quality of this course. Multiple videos cut off at the end, so many pop ups offering corrections to mistakes made by the instructor, Ayanna moves too fast and doesn't explain things sufficiently while building queries. This has been the weakest course of the 5 so far.

By Andrew M

Sep 6, 2021

This course was very confusing at times. It needs to be edited again, badly. As others have stated in their reviews, the difficulty of this course is significantly higher than that of the first four courses for the certification, but almost needlessly so. A lot of the difficulty stemmed from the fact that many of the SQL statements simply _do not_ work as written in BigQuery, despite the video showing them written and executed in BigQuery.

Concepts explained in the later parts of the course are used as part of numerous SQL statements in in the earlier parts of the course without any introduction or explanation. Many of the SQL statements are also used without any explanation at all. This is a great example of showing someone how to do something, but failing to explain why something works the way it does, or why a particular method is used over another option.

By Jazmin R A

Sep 13, 2022

The instructional videos are slow when explaining basics learned in past courses and superfast when introducing new ones. It makes following along so difficult.

By Jessica C

Jul 5, 2022

This course was so incredibly frustrating. Some of the modules answers are wrong. Please check the discussion boards for the right information. The content taught was complex but not clearly explained, yet the quizzes are so simple?? Whoever wrote the script for this course did not allow the course to flow like the previous courses. They also skipped around. Some material on the videos that weren't previously expalined were explained later on in the course.

This one was disheartening for me because I couldn't understand why the course material suddenly became so difficult. I'm not sure if I have a good grasp of SQL or not because the the material was difficult & hard to understand, the module answers didn't always match what I got when I followed along, and the quizzes were so simple that I don't think they accurately gauge knowledge.

By Ka Y L

Apr 14, 2022

TOO LONG IN EXCEL!!! TOO SIMPLE!!!!! TOO FAST IN SQL!!!!

By Shohail F

Apr 1, 2022

There's so many errors in the code they have provided!!!

By Abdurrahman T

Aug 17, 2022

The instructor is not explaining the content clearly

By Md. H

Jul 12, 2021

This course gives the limited knowledge about SQL. Some SQL query used in this course is advanced and the instructor write those query without providing enough explanation. And yes this course is great for introducing the process of data analysis but it is needed to take extra SQL course to grasp some of queries. Good part of this course is the instructor was great.

By Tristan K

Apr 23, 2023

Ran into a lot of issues using BigQuery during this course- I understand that Google wants to highlight its own products, but courses I've taken that use things like SQLLite or MySQL in a virtual desktop were far more conducive to my learning than this. It also would have been nice to get a more in-depth breakdown of why the queries were structured in certain ways, it's hard to learn/understand any of that without using outside resources and this course will NOT prepare you for real-life work scenarios, in my opinion. Everything with Google Sheets went really smoothly, however!

By Shady K

Oct 2, 2021

The instructor is clearly knowledgably and highly skilled. However, for people new to programming languages, there were many advanced concepts that were overwhelming. Additionally, some of the follow along SQL videos were much faster than they should have been and lacked explanation on a deeper level.

By Natalia D L T

Nov 8, 2021

Very confusing course. The instructor explained everything too fast. Of all courses so far I have done of the Google Data Analytics Certificate, this is the only one I haven't enjoyed, and the one I was looking forward the most

By Ricardo F d A

May 25, 2021

Weeks 1 and 2 are pretty good, but then the rest just went from 0 to 100 in last then a second. Pace is way too high, specially in the SQL parts. On week 3, I left with a lot more questions than answers.

By Patrick N

Apr 22, 2021

Needs more SQL practice of queries to be honest. Just having the students ram SQL examples and type them out.

By Amir H

Apr 19, 2021

I think this course was lacking a lot, I rushed through most of the topics, the labs were also confusing

By Eli D

Apr 6, 2023

Really disappointing. The way they teach you to use tools in this (and other) courses required to obtain the Data Analytics Certificate is chaotic and unordered. You'll jump back and forth between different tools so much that you'll feel like you only learn a surface level trick, get a quick pat on the back, and then are treated like "you're now ready!". You're not and this course is fooling you into thinking so. While these courses do provide an overview, you should also do courses specifically on SQL and other tools here if you really want deep knowledge and familiarity with them.

By Alicia J

Apr 24, 2021

Needed access to material like the glossary and some spreadsheets as they were locked. Things were not explained as clearly as they were in the other courses. Which made it difficult to take notes and pass the exams. Also had 2 Qwiklabs that wouldn't work properly. I couldn't download the worksheets to do the labs. Not impressed with this course

By Douglas “

Oct 18, 2023

The worst course so far. The material seemed not to be in a logical sequence: sometimes you were expecting a reading and you came up with a video and vice-versa. It seemed like some content was missing so another was inserted to fulfill the content, but there was no link between them. The instructor does not pass a great confidence on the subject: her queries were confused, the explanations were hard to follow (even when you go back and pause the videos)... The content does not seemed meant to the analyze phase and it seemed to me that I was stuck in the cleaning and validation process. In summary, I would not recommend that part of the course to anybody. Which is a pity because I was really excited about, once I thought I'd learn some new ways of analyzing and evaluating.

By Hussein T

Feb 25, 2024

worst instructor in this certificate so far, bad content , bad instructing, I learned absolutely nothing, it took me time to get the info of the course from other sources on my own.

By yousef

Jan 16, 2023

its soooooooooooooooooo bad to be a youtube course

By J. E M

Apr 4, 2021

Overall, this was the best one so far since it wasn't all review like some of the first ones were. That's on me because I come into this with some experience and the setup is so you don't have any. However, I can imagine if you don't have any SQL experience this could have been more challenging. There are some hands on activities, but not enough to really get the learner completely comfortable with new syntax and thought processes.

By Modupe f

Jan 12, 2023

IT WAS A GREAT COURSE. I LEARNT A LOT INSPITE OF THE FACT THAT THIS ISNT MY FIRST DATA ANALYTICS COURSE. MOST OF THE INSTRUCTORS DID A GREAT JOB EXCEPT FOR ONE IN MY OPINION. I WOULD HAVE HOWEVER LOVED TO BE ABLE TO SEEK THE INSTRUCTORS HELP FOR SOME CLARIFICATION WHILST DOING MY PROJECT THOUGH.

THANKS A LOT TO THE WHOLE CREW.

OLABISI FAYOSE

By Pat M

Apr 14, 2021

Course is easy to follow along, but to really get good at it you'll need to set time aside and go through the helpful links they provide you. I've bookmarked them all and grouped them by category (i.e. SQL, BigQuery, etc.). This way they'll be great references later on in your career.

By Paul B

Dec 24, 2022

Very good and useful practice of SQL. The JOIN party is pretty hardcore so I definitely couldn't master it but got enough of an understanding where I could learn quickly with some on the job training.

By Rafael G R

Jun 1, 2023

Excelente trabajo han realizado en este curso. Esta parte me ha ayudado a poner mas empeño en la importancia de la organizacion concienzuda de los datos. He mejorado en el analisis de los datos.