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I'm not impressed with the course nor the certificate program at this point. The quizzes test your recall of terminology but not your mastery of the topics underlying the terms. There's no opportunity for you to demonstrate what you learn with respect to visualizations and the whole community feels disconnected and aloof. Lots of the forum posts are people phoning in discussion prompts and that's not really their fault; the course phones it in as well. The content is shallow and doesn't foster mastery through practice, repetition, or demonstration. You can click "complete material" all the way through the course, guess the answers to the challenges, and get a Google certification in a week. Don't make the mistake of thinking this makes you as good as a Googler data analyst though; this course as taken is blatantly in its beta-testing phase.

It would be great if we had graded submissions where we could make our own visualizations, presentations, and show our mastery of data analytics so far. However that would require the Google Career Certificates team to have a team of competent and dedicated proctors and they seem to only have the budget for a couple forum post answerers. They don't have enough people to manage their course or student community.

The video lectures have odd pacing and some seem edited for brevity or to support a specific narrative. Lots of the practical video lessons are "monkey-see, monkey-do" video tutorials where the instructor demonstrates their expertise and directs the student to follow along. At the end of the lesson, the instructor claims "now you know how to do X just as well as me." As if copying them once gives you the same level of mastery.

It's not all bad, though. Lots of the principles here give you solid foundations on how to be a quality data analyst. The topics covered here are an excellent jumping off point for independent study and (ironically) googling the terminology used in the course, taking notes, and incorporating it into your knowledge base makes for just as good an education as the Coursera course.

Overall, this is a passable course with the potential to be great, but just isn't worth the money I'm putting into it. Since the course is newly created, I feel as though Google is testing the course using the first batches of students. That's a jerk move since I'm getting a bad education in order for future students to pay the same amount and get a better one. It seems like a software strategy for iterative development / sprints / what-have-you. Speaking as a data analyst - this course won't make you a good one. It'll just about give you the bare minimum, but to have a good shot at employment you'd better use this as supplementary learning, buy a book, and do plenty of independent study.

I have mixed feelings about this course. My main problem with it is that it just didn't fulfil it's assumed goal, which is to teach visualizations. There are very few Tableau tutorials in the course, and the ones that are there are more like UI overview (incidentally, the UI has changed a lot with regards to some important elements like joins). The tutorials are extremely guided. All in all, this part of the course really failed to live up to the expectations. You won't learn Tableau - and you won't learn data visualization.

I also didn't really like the personality of the presenter, sorry! But it is an important factor for the enjoyability of an online course.

On the other hand, the course had unexpectedly good material about presentation skills and building a strong presentation. For the first time in six courses, I found myself downloading actual videos for further reference, and I can easily picture myself going back to these materials when preparing presentations for my future work.

Tableau is good tool for Data Analyst. After taking this course I think it ought to be given after the CAPSTONE. There is too much to learn here and having taken it , it leaves me fearful that I have done some data dumping of all that I learned previously which is probably more relevant to the CAPSTONE than this. R is right after this another useful tool for DA but is it necessary to have it right before the CAPSTONE adding to more data dumping of the previous 6 modules completed. If and when I do get to the CAPSTONE and these 2 modules are not in the capstone I am going to be deeply upset . My recommendation is to you are: 1 - have Tableau and R modules after the CAPSTONE. 2- create a separate CAPSTONE to cover them 3 - issue a CAPSTONE for modules 1-5/6 followed by Tableau and R modules. Just saying, right now Tableau and R is consuming too much of the real estate in my brain and I know I have already dumped modules 1-5/6. Please consider my recommendations.

This course could've been better by more guided explorations of Tableau instead of constantly repeating the same theory about presentations repeatedly. The week 4 test questions were unnecessarily misleading too. This Google certificate has been great so far, and it has made me feel prepared, but this section left me with more questions than answers about Tableau. I feel I did not learn anything about the platform. Not to mention most of the things the "teach" you how to do was suing the paid version of Tableau instead of the more accesible one. Yes, there is 14-day trial, but maybe I don't want to waste that trial for this course? What if it takes me longer than 14 days to complete it? See what I mean?

The course starts really great, with awesome and very interesting principles you should use for data visualization. The instructor is very passionate and enthusiastic (although you can tell all of them just read) and there are great resources provided. Nevertheless, when you start learning about tableau, the content is very, very basic, and for most of it they just guide you through it, without a real challenge. You can technically practice on your own, and that is always recomended, but this professional certificate promises "in-demand skills that will have you job-ready". I don't think my knowledge of Tableau is "job-ready" at all.

There is far too little focus on actually creating visualizations. Too much time is taken up with best practices for presenting, which is wasted on a class where there are no live presentations. I'll keep my notes as reference, but it would be a lot more useful to have ended the class with a decent portfolio of Tableau visualizations. Some of the quiz questions also need to be rewritten -- many of them are either ambiguous or phrased so narrowly that they feel like trick questions. All in all, it's not a bad course, but the emphasis is wrong for the format.

This course is amazing theoretically in regard to how to present the data, BUT it doesn't teach Tableau sufficiently enough or rather not at all. I wish instead of all the talking about presentation tips, they could invest more time on Tableau by making more hands on projects or explaining more about it. And the "dashboard" project was on the application desktop version of the app, which I didn't like. There was ambiguity in it.

That course was my least favored one. I'll have to do a lot of stuff related to visualizations on my own.

By far the weakest of the Google Data Analyst Courses so far (1-6). Content repeats itself numerous times only to introduce more and more different options for terminology. Questions in challenges are unclear, so are the key takeaways from this course. Heavy contrast to the first 5 courses of Google DA-Certificate, highly academic and far away from hands-on. More an academic approach to data analysis, although this (sharing) would be a very nice part to throw in some practical guides and real-life hints.

The other courses in this program are interesting, but this was painful to get through. I liked the instructor, but the content was not at all engaging and the course challenge was too difficult. The concepts are abstract and feel somewhat subjective. I found myself rushing through the course and failed the challenge several times, which could be due in part to me rushing through, but the challenge also focused on minute concepts instead of really evaluating an understanding of the concepts.

Tableau was not taught deeply rather describe the presentation skill all the way. Presentation is an inherited skill also. Therefore in my opinion learning some technique is fine. When people has more technical knowledge then they can answer confidently and then no need to think so much about presentation skill. In this course the technical lecture about Tableau might be included more. I feel this might be helpful for audience. Thanks for your lecture.

I like how much emphasis was given to story telling through data...however Tableau is a really powerful tool and this course hardly touched on it at all. I was hoping this course would go more into building the hard skills with data visualization in Tableau or Excel. There is a lot of lingo associated with Tableau that could have been mentioned as well. This is coming from someone who has a Tableau certification.

Many of the activities are out of date and do not follow along with the directions given. For example, one activity took me hours to complete b/c the directions were out of date and I asked for help numerous times, and there is NO help for real-time content questions. You really need to have someone for that. With the 50$ per month, i deserve that at least.

I was bored during this course, with all respect but the instructor couldn't have my attention as the previous instructors did, he introduced advanced topics with complex expressions & a lot of information for one course. In my opinion, Connor who showed up in the last module would have been better as an instructor for this course.

This has been the most haphazard course of the set. The narrator goes to great lengths to describe best practices and then presents examples that don't follow his advice. Some advice on giving good presentations is solid. Anyone with speaking experience could have just run through the Tableau training and skipped the rest.

Course is full of filler content about art, storytelling and presentation and has very little to none practical usage of Tableu. Tableu is covered in only one week out of four in this course so you should rename the course something like : "Learn how to talk and present and take other courses on Tableu after this one".

This course is pretty terrible: it says that it will teach you tableau, but in reality it only teaches the most basic functions of it, and doesn't explain hardly anything. After completing this course--I tried to do an actual project in Tableau, and realized that I learned practically Nothing from this entire course!

I was a little disappointed with the balance between Tableau-related content and general presentation skills. There was far too little on Tableau and far too much presentation skills. While being able to present well and effectively is very important, the promise of this course was learning to use Tableau.

Really the weakest of the courses so far. Boring, very "american corporate culture" oriented, and quite long winded. While the skills in other courses are very much applicable outside of the corporate soul-crushing world, this one is barely applicable even there, let alone outside.

This course is too subjective and one have to rely on the Lecturer's suggestion and opinion to pass quizzes. In other words, you have to remember word for word what he said in the videos. This course spent too little time teaching you how to construct a presentation in tableau.

The instructions for the Tableau section were overly complicated and very difficult to follow with limited screen shots. It's a complicated program and smaller bite-sized assignments would have been more helpful for getting our feet wet.

Does not spend nearly enough time with Tableau and instead you are presented with painfully obvious observations about basic visual design and conceptual anecdotes about data visualization. I guess I'll go learn more on YouTube for free.

The entire program is very superficial, but this course feels especially so. I don't question the content quality, but the course turned out very uninteresting. I lost the motivation on week 2 and really struggled to finish it.

Decent information, but I wish that this course focused more on Tableau than presentation skills. I would have liked to see some more hands-on activities or even guided activities for creating visualizations from scratch.