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Hi Coursera, I would like to express my concerns over this course of the program:

Below are the things which I consider the cause of slow and dry nature of this course:

LEARNING OUTCOME WHICH I CONSIDER USEFUL:

1) The learning outcome which I got from this course WHICH I CONSIDER USEFUL is, Structured Thinking, Questions to ask from stakeholders and from myself during the six phases of analysis, Types of problems, Ineffective questions, SMART methodolgy of asking effective questions. Data-inspired decision making, Types of data, Presentation tools, Pivot tables, metric, metric goals, Small data, big data, Spreadsheet info, data life cycle and spreadsheets, Spreadsheet errors and fixes.

LEARNING OUTCOME IN WHICH I CONSIDER MYSELF IN BIT TROUBLE IN DIGESTING THE KNOWLEDGE I GAINED:

1) Scope of work, should be more practice based and practical (giving scenario questions and how to prepare SCOPE OF WORK tempelate for that scenario).

2) Week 4 of this course is not so much appreciated as i found this week's material dry and lots of efforts to understand in one go, please make this week more scenario based, more practical.

Thanks

Syed Ahmed Sultan

This was overall a good course but could use a section on how to construct questions better especially if you are new to analytics, business, finance, etc. Sometimes new people don't have the necessary words and background experience to come up with proper questions or understand which questions would be important in that field due to lack of experience and working knowledge. Having a lot of scenarios and sample questions was extremely helpful but these were provided and did not help me in coming up with my own questions unless I changed a word or two to suit my example, which I didn't want to do as it felt like copying. It would be helpful to learn to word a question properly so that it makes sense to everyone. Also, the section referring to Problem types is very confusing and I struggled to make sense of it, seeing as the list of problem types is more of a list of solutions not the types of problems. I understand the overall picture but it took me ages to get there, I feel like if it was worded in a different way, the overall progress of this course would've been faster.

I believe this course is great, but its lacking more in depth examples of how to properly use SQL, Spreadsheets, Database Systems, Formulas and a few other things. As I have stated before, there needs to be a [live chat] available to speak to someone when in need. As I am new to all of this, I have had problems understanding a few things as mention in the above statements. This is causing me to stop or rethink about this whole course why? If I can not understand fully one stage of course how can I continue moving forward with the rest of the program. I will be lost trying to work at things as they get harder because I don't fully understand even the basic requirements. I won't be able to put things together when the time comes. Its very upsetting for me, I don't seem to get the full story in each stage of the course, this will only lead me to think that I know how to do things, but in reality I don't even no how to do the basic things, I feel so lost at times.

I found that most of the course was trying to remember glossary terms and too much stuff about meetings. I don't think it was that worthwhile to be honest. I'd rather learn more about how to do things in analytics instead of learning acronyms and suggested process steps. I also think some of the questions asked in the quizzes are not worded properly and can lead to the attendee choosing what the test preparer thought was a wrong answer. I disagreed with some of the things the test preparer thought were "wrong" in many cases. Hoping the rest of the course is not like this one and actually shows the attendee how to do things instead of a bunch of lingo and terms that basically just amount to "ask a lot of questions of your stakeholders during a project". The excel/sheets stuff was very basic and I had to put it on 2 times speed just to get through it as it was basic stuff I already knew.

As someone who takes this as a part of the Google Data Analytics certificate, I enrolled in this course with the expectation that I'll get to learn how to ask questions and decide on what kind of data is suitable for each data project. But this only took up about 20% of the course, which is quite disappointing given how they market the certificate as "each course will cover one step of the data analytics journey". Towards the end, it felt like they ran out of things to cover when they started discussing other topics like excel basics, communication or teamwork. While at the same time I still didn't feel totally confident about the "asking questions" component and there are definitely more things that can be covered. I totally understand how these skills are helpful as a data analyst, but don't think the flow of the certificate is working very well.

I learned alot during the course. It still seems a little disconnected between working on a desktop, tablet, and smartphone. It seems the lessons don't update in between those devices.

Also, I missed a question on the final quiz of week 4. The question was about asking questions to get proper data from customers. I missed half a point for NOT selecting an option that did not give a definitive answer on whether the customer was satisfied with the vender's services. I thought we needed to ask questions that extended beyond YES or NO.

That was my only issue with this course. I feel I should've gotten full credit for the question. I also wanted to make sure that I understand that if I retake a test to get 100, do I get that score, or is my grade docked a couple points because I had to retake the quiz?

If you have an undergrad degree or experience in science and working with a spreadsheet, this course info is pretty straightforward. I took the quizzes first and mostly passed before reading through the weekly content. It was boring at times. I feel like it could've been half the length that it is. I do like some of the examples they give, you know, for context :p . I'm going to keep doing the next course in this certificate, hoping for more time/exercises using SQL and databases.

If you have no experience with how to work on a team or how to use a few functions in a spreadsheet or just out of high school, this will be informative. Important vocabulary is repeated throughout the 4 weeks and it is a good intro pace. It's an introduction to some tools and working with a team/supervisors.

I'm giving this portion of the course 3 stars, it bleeds into project management/business analyst too much. While there are some hands on activities doing spread sheet exercises I think it just falls short of what data analysts are suppose to do. I'm on module 3 currently near the end you have to mock up a scope of a project. While it's a good skill to learn, it doesn't benefit us the learners. There's too much of developing right questions for a case study, to me it feels like that's something a business analyst is doing already. I feel it would be better suited to have students really deep dive on how spread sheets work. There's only a small section of it and it lists resources to further read, but there should be more exercises on it.

2,5. Better than the first course in the specialization, but still there is a lot of space for improvement. My main impression is that the course includes a range of not necessarily connected topics which don't really fit into the “ask questions” subject. I think that cooperation & communication topics should be limited to specifically data analyst-related problems. The rest of the topics could be easily included in a separate course on how to cooperate effectively in a work environment and would be applicable to a wider range of jobs.

Similarly as in the first course, a lot of “talking head” videos, almost zero visualizations / gamification. Google Sheet Guided Project was refreshing as a type of activity, but still very basic.

I liked how this course is preparing us for the job and what to expect while at it. However, I feel that it was too soon to introduce us to concepts of meeting, behaviour at work environment etc. Moreover, the course instructor's voice (speech) was not clear and felt monotonus most of the time, and her gestures although forthcoming but were too loud and distractive. Furthermore, the video quality on the day 1 of shoot was unpleasing as the colour temperature was set to be too warm which caused eyes strain after a certain time. This however was not a case on the day 2 of shooting where the temperature was nuetral.

I am getting oriented now, but it has taken me a while to see how the course is Trganized. Also, there was a quiz that asked questions about SQL and database and there was no table to reference. I just guessed and got it right, fortunately. I understand that it is important to be able to interact with fellow workers. I value it. But I don't think that hooking up with people also taking the course is helping. I want to learn from people who know what they are talking about. I can be confusing to get sidetracked by focusing on people who are spitting in the wind as much as I am.

This course, compared to the previous one, is a bit more vague. Sure, I gained some more spreadsheet competences, which is great. And sure, I need to be educated about good norms like preparing a scope of work or communicating effectively. But it wasn't very clear what the common thread was. Especially the first half of the course was confusing. Part of the problem is that many of the definitions given are pretty vague or, in my opinion, inaccurate. Like the definition of secndary stakeholders, or structured thinking, to name a couple.

Pros

1. The presenter was clear

2. The advice about communication was valuable

Cons

1.The content seemed disconnected. I didn't know why spreadsheets were connected to the other content. It seemed like a jumble of different ideas

2. The practice tests and challenges are not at all challenging. The final quiz didn't actually require doing any spreadsheet calculations. In fact I didn't need to even open up the spreadsheets at all

3. The time aproximations are way over. It takes me about 1/5 of the time to complete then what it says.

The contents of this course are very useful, thanks about it. But as a former training video maker, I can easily tell the instructor was reading the teleprompter or notes in front of her all the time, she even read some words incorrectly. To me, she didn't look as professional as the Course 1 one, the way she read the notes sometimes distracted me. In addition, the way that the words on the side monitor (next to the instructor) looked odd to me too, for example there are lots of times I saw the editor put the text on the logo

There is no learning or experience prerequisite for the course so it must be very, very basic, and it is. If you have any business experience or graduated with any type of business, computer, manufacturing, healthcare, etc degree you had courses that addressed the topics covered in this course. I would not call this course a waste of time because it is presenting the material in the Google style. Just realize that you may have seen it before and need to see it in a different way.

Some things were good, and some were bad. Overall I would say that this one was weaker than first. It was off topic sometimes, but I would not say that it was useless. The instructor is lovely and explains everything clean and very understandable. You will learn some basics about Spreadsheets ( I count this as off topic) and how to communicate and analyze stakeholders (would be better if optional). Still, it gave some key concepts and information (like SMART questions)