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About the Course

This is the third course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. As you continue to build on your understanding of the topics from the first two courses, you’ll be introduced to new topics that will help you gain practical data analytics skills. You’ll learn how to use tools like spreadsheets and SQL to extract and make use of the right data for your objectives, and how to organize and protect your data. 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: - Find out how analysts decide what data to collect for analysis. - Learn about structured and unstructured data, data types, and data formats. - Discover how to identify different types of bias in data to help ensure data credibility. - Explore how analysts use spreadsheets and SQL within databases and data sets. - Examine open data and the relationship between, and importance of, data ethics and data privacy. - Gain an understanding of how to access databases and extract, filter, and sort the data they contain. - Learn best practices for organizing data and keeping it secure....

Top reviews

RA

Aug 10, 2022

The lessons were easy to follow through and the explanantions were easy to understand. The hands-on practices also helped improve hands-on skills with the data analysis tools introduced in this course

DD

Jul 4, 2021

Thank you for the course! It's a nice introduction to SQL and Google Big Query as well as the concepts of data privacy and security. The course also offers some great tips for professional networking.

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By PAVAN K

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Apr 12, 2021

This was a great course and it was in flow with the second course of the specialization. Gave good insights about bias, ethics, and protecting data. It also involved a lot of hands-on activities.

By Manit S S

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Dec 13, 2022

This was probably the most in-depth course yet, it was refreshing and challenging. The videos can be reduced, reading has a much better impact, and Scribe can be utilized in the materials more.

By Neil S

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Dec 31, 2021

I liked that some assignments had me use SQL and get more comfortable using it. However I would have liked more assignments using SQL and Sheets to get more practice. Otherwise was pretty fun.

By Bala N

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Mar 15, 2023

The material itself was very good however the videos for hands on work was sometimes inconsistent with what one found in the software (the user interface). At times this was a bit frustrating.

By Pedro F

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May 12, 2022

Great course, covering complex themes like SQL and also lighter ones like social connections and mentoring. Using BigQuery was difficult to keep up with the videos but in the end it was great!

By kushal c

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May 8, 2022

Great course. Only one more thing that I would recommend is to use a single example and build up on the same thoughtout the course from working on it in excel to even querying the same in sql.

By SUBHASISH P

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Jul 4, 2021

Too many obvious information for a person who has prior experience with data. Please cut the course short for those who already have grip over these concepts. Anyways, it is helpful and great.

By Yusuf Y

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Oct 19, 2022

Quite nice, my only complaints were that the examples regarding Google Cloud/BigQuery were outdated. This wouldn't be too much of an issue were both platforms not created/endorsed by Google.

By Rachit B

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Feb 19, 2022

There is no alternative to discuss doubts with anyone except for discussion board which is not that interactive as well. Many doubts and many queries remain unanswered. Course is good so far.

By oscar k

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Jan 3, 2023

Les cours est fantastiques mais je trouve le professeur qui a un rythme très accéléré en parlant. je suis francophone et j'essaye de faire un effort pour le suivre.

En general, c'etait super.

By Success O

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Aug 18, 2023

It's a really interesting course, I enjoyed it, I sincerely learnt a lot from it😋😋, I thought it was going to dig deeper into SQL, well, let's see the next step of analysis - Processing🔥

By Tarokhfallah

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Mar 19, 2022

This course was good but not as well as the former courses, because it was so simple and doesn't teach useful things for data science mostly.

Thank you Coursera and Google for your support!

By Manas G

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Apr 23, 2023

Getting in Depth and Learning a lot about the ways to explore new Data and how does Big Query and other tools of SQL work. Getting introduced to Excel and its importance in handling Data.

By Daniel A

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Oct 10, 2023

I had some issues using BigQuery as certain sections continued to error out. If I wasn't already familiar with SQL queries I would have had a difficult time with this part of the course.

By Carlos R R

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Oct 8, 2021

This third Course represents a forest of learning: very good. Had trouble updating dates, because it made me miss the progress made on homework and knowledge tests in the first few weeks

By Meher P

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Feb 4, 2022

please teach about Github and kaggle. I personally found a difficult, apart from that the optional week five who was fantastic I learnt so much. Thank you so much Google and Coursera

By Asyraf R

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Jul 25, 2021

Overall a great course, meaningful overview on theories about data preparation. It could have gotten 5 stars if it had more hands-on practical exercises on SQL included in the course.

By E W L

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May 6, 2022

Very succint layout of the course, the only drawback is the lack of more clarity on the steps in using the Google Cloud Platform to practise BigQuery for the projects in the course.

By Bolaji S

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Oct 6, 2023

While the content is great learning and useful, the week three was brutally long and not sure why some of its contents was not pushed into say week 4 which seemed shorter compared.

By Moazam A

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Sep 2, 2023

Course contents were well described, Course Instructor throughout explained very well. Just Week 3 was little lengthy. In SQL portion some of the SQL queries were explained nicely.

By Rakesh K

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Oct 26, 2022

A massive improvement over the first two courses in this specialization. Finally we learn something substantial. And Hallie is the best teacher so far and also hilarious at times.

By Amanda P

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Mar 11, 2022

excelled course, possibly more practice or videos of queries - step by step. How to best check for errors, etc. I could be missing something and will go back and review as well.

By Abdullah F

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Jan 4, 2022

SQL could've been better, Overall the course was really nice but SQL was difficult to setup(payment options*) and the activity of SQL should've been more diversified(commands).

By Topollo M

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Aug 1, 2022

The course is outstanding, of course there is always room for improvement. Like noting importing subjects in bullet forms. It will be easier to make and take notes that way.

By Cara B

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Jun 6, 2023

I think Mod 3 needs some adjusting, there were a lot of parts that assuming the student had prior knowledge to coding and it make it harder to understand certain sections.