I love this training so far. I'm really excited about getting started with R as I have zero programming skills. I take that back. I taught myself html years ago but that doesn't really apply anymore.

should have few more videos on some complete dashboards to review from your end

Was expecting more hands on for visualization.

Too much time spent on basic presentation skills and not enough with using tools like Tableau. That has been my experience with all the courses in this certificate. There is over-explanation of basic concepts, and much less time spent on more in-depth technical skills like SQL, Kaggle, Spreadsheets, and Tableau.

The course is good for, getting tips to make a presentation and how to present it among stakeholders,But, It very little contents on how we could build that visualization in Tableau, all it have , just 2/3 methods to build visuals. It has very little content of Tableau.

Should have more More Tableau exercises. The sound of video is very low. It is most disappointed course.

Too messy

This course was designed for people who never ever did a presentation before in their life, because the content was almost only theory about how to do a slide presentation. If you do regular presentations in your current job, this course is full of methods and frameworks to describe what common sense, senior colleagues and some practice already taught you. Tableau was only briefly mentioned, and almost no exercises with the tool were made. As in the previous course, you will need to search for external sources and do exercises for yourself, if you want to learn how to use Tableau The pieces of advice about presentation skills were good enough, and I find the module about preparing for Q&A and how to handle objections somewhat interesting. But I already work with analytics, I've done tons of presentations before, and I'm doing this certificate to develop my skills and learn more about SQL, Tableau, and R. From this perspective, this course was not helpful at all. I found myself playing videos at 1,75x speed because I was hearing the same useless thing for the 3rd time. I also think that some of the advice about presentations do not apply to all industries. I hope Google redesign this course.

*Course: "Using bright colors, that contrast against the background can help those with poor visibility, whether permanently or temporarily clearly see the information conveyed"

*Quiz Question: Distinguishing elements of your data visualizations makes the content easier to see. This can help make them more accessible for audience members with visual impairments. What is a method data analysts use to distinguish elements?

Chosen Answer 1: Using contrasting color and shapes (wrong)

Chosen Answer 2: Separate the foreground from the background (wrong)

I find it hard to keep up with this course. I don't understand the relation of some of the questions with the course material.

I was expecting quite more of Tableau in this course, I leave feeling my knowledge in this topic is still very little. There was a lot on making good visual (irrespective of the tool being used) and making presentations, but the Tableau side of this course, which was the star tool to be learned, ended up being a bit dissapointing.

I did not like this course whatsoever.

The information about visualization and presentations are excessive (no need to be genius to pick right font and color). At the same time, the crutial skills (Tableau) are given insufficiently.

1. According to the title of the course, I expected to see more lessons on using Tableau to create fascinating and professional visualizations! But, turned out that there were a few lessons on how to add data to the dashboard, change colors in the example graphs and to locate legends (floating). No in-depth explanations on the Tableau interface, functionalities, etc. So, I have to learn it by myself. And the rest of the of the course (about a half of it) is devoted to preparing and running presentations (organizing slides, contents, etc.) which was basically useless for me since I already have a huge experience in creating and delivering presentations.

2. In one of the quizzes I answered a question correctly, but the system marked it as incorrect, thus, giving a lower grade for it. I opened discussion about it, and, additionally, reported an issue with it. So far, no reaction to my message... Similar "bugs" I had in previous courses of this certificate series, also reported issues, and the same - no reactions and responds...

Don't go into this course expecting to learn Tableau. Fortunately I had prior Tableau experience but Tableau is only really briefly mentioned and even then the tutorials are rushed. You spend half the course learning how to speak and communicate which is fine, but disappointing that there is such little Tableau practice.

This course had some good moments, but the material was very basic and more about presentation skills. The quizes were "buggy" and not written very professionally. It could be improved by having an end of class project that used Tabelau and demonstrated proficiency vs just answering basic multiple choice questions.

The instruction was excellent, and the curriculum was great! It alternated among video lectures, hands-on learning, and reading assignments; so it never becomes tedious. You get the opportunity to learn from several people at Google, including their Director of Analytics; so you really are learning from the experts in the field.

The class exceeded my expectations, not only teaching me how to use Tableau (which was my primary goal in taking the class) but also teaching me principles of design AND how to deliver an effective data presentation to stakeholders. The principles of design equipped me to optimize my data visualizations for any audience, and the presentation skills prepared me to incorporate my data visualizations into a larger data story aimed at resolving real business problems.

I can't say enough good things about this course. I will end with one note about the time it takes to complete the class. If you are working full-time, then you will be able to stay on pace to complete the class in the expected four weeks. But if you are learning full-time, then the class is doable in 4 days. You can make it a goal to complete each Week of material in a single day. Some might say that is too much information in a short period of time, but if you take good notes, bookmark the online resources, and print the other resources; you can reference the information anytime you need when you are creating future visualizations and presentations.

This course taught me a lot about data visualisations, dashboarding and presenting to an audience in an extremely insightful way. I was well presented and well worth the time and effort I put into it.

This course is really good and amazing, I have learned a lot of thing from this course but very unofortunate that this materi only have 4 weeks in totals. Anyway thank you very much for this course.

This course is suffering in the reviews as it is a change of pace and style from the previous courses. The time allocated to Tableu is effective but it is only a small component of the material. A larger element of the course is design considerations and presentation guidelines. These topics were covered well although again pitched toward introductory learning. The instructor brings an academic/university theoretical approach at times which differs from the practical focus of previous courses. At times the assessment material is focussed too heavily on semantic differences and definitions rather than a higher level of conceptual understanding. Overall I thought the course was well structured and effective.

Really hoped there would be more Tableau assignments and hands on exercises. However, I am really grateful that you showed us Tableau public, how to access/download it, and the tutorials that are accessible on their website.

Too much repetition of concepts and explanations.

The content is great, but the instructional design is very poor and anachronistic. It is too input-heay, with very few practical activities. Besides, the practical activities are mostly related do different examples, making it harder to envision how the process would look like in practice. I would've appreciated a more focused course, with less input and more concise theoretical part, and much more practice. It is hard to see the added value of just looking at videos and reading articles.

I felt like this was the weakest of the courses so far with the most ambiguity regarding the graded assignments. I think a significant amount of the test questions could be updated to be more clearly aligned with the material being presented. I could be an outlier but I personally found this course to be the most confusing and feel the least confident about the material compared to earlier courses in this certification.

I'm giving 1 star to retaliate for having such an annoying certification process. Expect to randomly need to "verifiy id" by confirming your name after random courses in the certificate. Want to verify my id before I start, fine. Want to verify at the very end before giving me any of my certifications, fine. Though when I have already confirmed my id, received multiple class certifications for this program, than you want to make me sit here with my thumb in my ass when I put on my todo list [ ] complete class [ ] add certificate to portfolio. Here is a tip: if you want an id verification system to give me my cert, make it a process instead of a random interrupt me and block me from accessing what I pay for until one of your humans verifies that oh shit, his name hasn't changed, why do we need to verify his name for the 6th class cert but not the 5th. Using logic to create your systems can result in logic people not going insane as they are restricted from using what they pay for.

This course was very poor. The videos spent almost all of the time talking about specific examples and almost no time teaching actual skills. The fluff about presenting is not exactly what people sign up for when they pay for a data analysis certificate. This entire course needs to be revamped to include more time about using the data vis software. The parts about presentations skills and using slide show software should be optional. Also, the quizes are way too picky. There are bad questions with no good answers. There are bad questions that only accept one answer but offer synonyms as choices. It's a good thing this wasn't the first course in the program, because I definitely would have quit without even completing this course, let alone the rest of the program.

This was a pretty frustrating course. I understand certain things need to be repeated and put into context but Google really went overboard here. Some of the test questions were very wordy and confusing compared to the previous courses. As other have mentioned, they under utilize videos and put an emphasis on reading very uninteresting concepts and theories about presentation. Maybe it's because I'm familiar with some of the material that I found it uninteresting and not engaging. I hope Google reassess their approach to this course.