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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

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.

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

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By Edina K

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Jun 16, 2023

I found the technical bits quite difficult to follow, and not just because the interface is outdated of the material. As someone new to bigQuery, Kaggle, and SQL, the learning journey was not as smooth as it could have been

By Theresa H (

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Dec 18, 2024

It wasn't organized efficiently. I was doing an assignment and then a few assignments later I was learning how to do what I ended up searching the internet for to finish the first time. The videos were informative though.

By Richard G E

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Jul 29, 2022

Generally, its a great course but the big query aspects were not beginner friendly at all. What is shown as example in the course has a different user interface from what is on the google sandbox or bigquery console

By Susan M

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Apr 6, 2023

This course was challenging especially the weeks where we explored BigQuery. I was unable to cut/paste from the learning templates. BigQuery was difficult to navigate through the pages when doing the examples.

By Mohammad Y I

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Sep 26, 2022

the course was not according to the coursera standards, as we experienced already in the previous certificates. there were no synchronization between videos and the actual "tough" and difficult envoirnmnt .

By Greg L

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Jul 27, 2024

this and the other modules in the suite that I have taken so far, are simple talking-head courses with very little student input or activity and very low-level challenge. Only stubbornness make me persist.

By oliver a

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Oct 25, 2023

A few modules were really hard to understand. There were many variations between the platforms and the course material. It would be easier to have video guides than written instructions.

By Shady A

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Apr 17, 2023

i failed to do many things on the consul of google cloud so i was enforced to spread the dataset to an excel sheets to can resolve the test it wasn't easy at all for some one beginner

By Samridhya M

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Jun 23, 2022

The lectures were too monotnous compared to the previous two courses. I wish the SQL and Kaggle parts were shown and demonstrated step by step in gretaer detail in the video lectures.

By Víctor A P F

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May 14, 2023

Los videos explicativos de SQL estan muy desactualizados y por ende al momento de interacturar con Bitquery se hace un poco dificil encontrar las opciones que indica la profesora.

By Marco V

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Feb 5, 2023

i learned alot with the videos and readings.

I don't like that i have to go to the discussion page. It would be way more convenient for there to be a "common questions asked " area

By Maria

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Aug 1, 2024

I was experiencing some issues with Module 4 - Follow along video. I could not duplicate what the instructor was doing in his video. I was getting an error message on my screen.

By Amanda P

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Jul 21, 2023

Super fast instructor. Not most of people doing the course will have English as first language. It was hard to keep up, and I couldn't understand that easy some of the concepts.

By Kwan H C C

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Aug 14, 2022

It is hard for me to follow the SQL exercise on mac, maybe it is due to os system issue. Overall, I don't have a great comment on this course compare with the previous two.

By Jonathan S

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Dec 23, 2022

Good practice with SQL and filtering and sorting practices. The directions to use BiqQuery are out of date, and required datasets do not pin to project as easily as said.

By Tina

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Jan 17, 2022

The course is fine. The coursera website is glitchy. When you complete a course, it does not take you to the next course. It does not offer the certificate immediately.

By MC G

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Oct 16, 2021

Mostly ok, but some sections tested in things that didn't show up until later in the course. The SQL section especially seemed to be out of order and had redundancy.

By Giriana H

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Apr 9, 2023

Week 3 was extremely hard to follow because the Big Query website wasn't the same to the course. I get that they make changes often but it made it difficult.

By Bryan K

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May 21, 2023

Some of the exercises and self-reflections seem repetitive and unrelated to the material. These feel more like course filler than anything of practical use.

By Mahboob A

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Apr 8, 2022

Every course is good. But unfortunatly a very lenghty course... You guys can make it short even in half of duration... Save your time and our. Thank you...

By Josh

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Jan 26, 2023

A few points of confusion for me include stating that metadata isn't used in data analytics and also stating the encryption isn't part of data privacy.

By Amy M

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Apr 25, 2022

This course is tought with lots of SQL challenges and information buried in documents. This one has taken me the longest out of the courses thus far.

By Marija R

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Jan 2, 2022

some chapters had a poor guidance. Kaggle tasks and assignments come without much explanation, either. This course was a bit stressful and too fast.

By Subhransu B

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Oct 21, 2024

I was facing problem when I have to do the 1 hr tests It have too much information and I would love if I have a video explaining all those steps.

By Mukul S

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Feb 18, 2022

This course is theoritical, I wanted to learn SQL from this course. I don't think till now, I am able to find a job with this course in Google.