It was a very informative course. however the hands-on activities towards the end were broken or not very helpful in gaining extra knowledge on a subject because it wasn't clear how to get the results they were asking for. The course videos took forever to get through due to their not being elaboration into the information. I had to spend at least an hour per video and play with the systems to learn the concepts though i still am not fully confident i get it fully still

i so much enjoyed this class. i need to brush up on my Database SQL skills, is one area i know i am really lacking behind. however the lecturer was pretty amazing with a step by step details. but next time when explaining SQL kindly take everyone as an armature because not everyone understand the language and you are too fast. with that said every other thing she touched was beautiful and amazing. thank you for this amazing opportunity.

I think this is a really good course to keep building knowledge and gaining practice with functions with spreadsheets and SQL following on from the previous courses in the certificate, and, in this sense, I think it is brilliant and a challenge to me. However, I also think that, in terms of analysis, there could have been a few more introductory concepts that will be required in the future like basic statistical analysis.

This course was well organized and provided loads of great tutorials on using tools for spreadsheets and for SQL. It was a great introductory course for data analysis. My only qualm is that it would make more sense to me to integrate the course project into this stage of the course. It makes much more sense to practice skills for the analysis phase of your final project while we are learning the tools for that analysis.

There are a multitude of things that are not right about this course. That is mainly because of constant updates. I learned a lot of SQL and tried my best to do every one of the SQL tests and training exercises but there are few, even if you try and follow their steps completely you won't get your results. I googled and learned from others on the internet which to tell you the truth the course instructor said herself.

Instructor was extremely knowledgable and the course was fairly easy to follow. I had some SQL knowledge prior to the course and found that I still learned quite a bit about SQL through the teachings. I also appreciated that the spreadsheet concepts and resources provided were related to Excel as well as Google Sheets. A few of the quiz and assignment questions were a little convoluted but overall a well done course.

Overall, I thought the course was good but I wish we spent more time discussing the more complicated SQL queries. I feel like building up strong SQL skills are really important for a data analyst and when we got to the more complex queries it was more like "here's the code, copy it and use it" rather than slowing down and really explaining what needed to be done to accomplish this complex query.

Course conductor teaching and her knowledge was commendable. But the course teaches with google sheet, assisgnment, tests that need to be completed for the course, guided instructions are all in google sheet, if you are learning from excel, corresponding instruction are not given, student has to find on their own. So much time spent on finding the corresponding options was very frusterating

Content was great and comprehensible , what seemed disappointing to me was that the material was not challenging enough and did not require intensive thinking, many exercises or even the course challenge just hinted the solutions to me, I felt like more learning can be done if I actually practiced solving issues and writing my own code instead of copy and pasting given code on the exercises.

Had a great time going through the material though it's pretty much like a review for me as I've been using Spreadsheets and SQL/RDBMS. On the other hand, it's great to refresh and have a better understanding of the analysis phase, and continued data validation processes. I'm primarily taking this whole certification program to earn the Google Professional Certificate as a Data Analyst.

The course focuses on clauses and statements in SQL, it gives you the concepts to write queries and pull the data you need from your dataset. Some queries were complicated and not explained well by the instructor, however the course gives you the online resources you need to develop your skills.

It also gives you an idea about the required and most common used functions in spreadsheet.

Overall, it was a great course to learn the basics of SQL queries and spreadsheets, I feel like this course was a bit rushed a bit challenging for a beginner, however who said this was not going to be a challenge. There were allot of resources provided to help with SQL, but I will definitely need to take a supplementary course to make sure I got the full understanding and grasp of SQL.

I found this course a bit more repetitive than the earlier courses in this sequence. On the whole, that may have been a good thing as I got in a bit more practice. However, it also seemed less well-put-together, like it could have used another round of copy editing. There were just a bunch of things that should have been expressed more clearly. On the whole, though, it was pretty good.

The course is very good with a lot of practice exercises, but it doesn't present the actual concept of analysis in depth. On the other hand, it mainly focuses on the analysis tools like spreadsheets and SQL which is absolutely great, but the course is needed to be a bit longer to elaborate all the needed concepts of analysis with some practice examples that help deepen them.

The best course in the whole series, BY FAR. Finally some lecturer with deep knowledge willing to share it, with not-so-easy examples. She is even too fast in some cases, especially when typing the database+table names while joining tables etc. This is how the course should look like consistently, instead of presentation tips, emailing etiquette and empty phrases about bias.

The worst of it was that the SQL questions on the Weekly Challenges and Practice Quizzes gave me the wrong results which led me to get the answer wrong multiple times! I even had a friend who is currently a Data Analyst and C++ Programmer look at it and she said that the function wasn't working and she got the answer wrong as well!

All in all, Ayranna was a great teacher!

I think that this was the first course where I learned something new about both SQL and excel. The program is very slow and up to this point I don't think that I have gotten much out of it. Still doing it though becuase I feel like the certification will be worth it. I think that there should be an accelorated course for those who are more advanced.

I thought this was the best course in the series so far. I would urge content creators to go over the tests to make sure they are accurate. The next thing I will look for are drills that I can do to practice joins, subqueries, calculations and working with temp tables. If that were part of this course of a separate course--that would be great.

The course material was good for a beginner like me but my rating aren't 5/5 is because the instructor was good but their way of teaching, personally seemed kind of bland or dull only comparing to the 4 courses already covered in this course. Otherwise the materials and teaching are good. If there was an option to give 4.5 stars I would.

The information is great, but sometimes, particularly with SQL the information goes too fast. It is true you can check the videos again but I think that in order to gain understanding we need to be given more excercises without a step by step guide and also slow down in some videos to study the structure of a query or complex matter.

The instructor has high speed teaching at sometimes,

and some instructions did not match the dataset or presentation

This course has 4 weeks progress, the beginning I can complete it in time, but not for the final session (Wk4) I think the content distribution between 4 weeks not balance so it is hard for me to plan my time to study

The lesson is great. The speaker is well-organized in developing the lessons.

It was a great way to learn about the analysis and answering the questions it entails.

The speaker had some accelerated explanations for certain concepts, but overall the explanations were clear. The analysis she is doing and how she is

This was the most challenging course within the Google Data Analytics Certification thus far! There are a few improvements that need to made to the content around ordering of the curriculum and updating to reflect changes in the sites they refer to. Hopefully, those will happen soon and this will be a full 5 stars!

Sometimes it is difficult to get BigQuery to work on my mac, I'm not sure if it's user error or operating system. It would be more helpful in learning sql if there was an interactive way to create query's within coursera. It would also be helpful to have a master document of what all the sql functions mean and do.

Now I know how to use Pivot table.

For Pivot table Chapter, I was confused when watch the 1st video. I know it's not easy to demo how to use the tools. I had to skip to Reading first, then back to video. Read cleared my confusion on what the video is talking about.

Some example of formulas are good to practice.