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While this course did provide some useful material, mostly when it was focusing on what sorts of questions to ask during data analysis, I felt that much of it was irrelevant to the specifics of being a data analyst. I am taking this eight-course certificate program not to learn how to work an office job, but to learn how to be a data analyst. Sections focusing on office etiquette are ancillary to that goal, and are irrelevant to the time I am putting in here. I feel that these sections could better be put into a supplemental course rather than a core part of the analytics certificate.

Additionally, I struggled some with Ximena's presentation. Many of her examples were not helpful because they were too vague or not rooted in real-life situations, so I could not connect them together or make sense of what I was supposed to be paying attention to. Primarily, she would say things like "You're in this situation, and you need to do this," but I wouldn't have any way to know *why* I should "do this" or why I would be in that situation in the first place. By contrast, Sarah's lone video on her specific experiences as a data analyst was very helpful because she walked me, as the viewer, through each step of the process she went on to analyze the data in her situation.

Lastly (and this is somewhat unfortunate), Ximena's accent, though not very strong, did make it difficult for me to understand her at times. I found that I had to focus a lot more on the specific words she was saying, which made it harder for me to connect the dots and get to the meaning she was trying to communicate; this wasn't a problem I had with the primary video presenter during the first course (I can't recall his name now). It's possible that I'm alone in this, but that was my experience. I also found her constant encouragement at the end of each video a little off-putting. I am looking for a teacher in these subjects, rather than a cheerleader.

I found it very hard to enjoy this course. This is just a personal preference/learning thing but it felt like there were substantially more reading articles in this course overall compared to the foundations unit. As someone that has sturggled with reading comprehension their whole life, this made learning this unit a little more difficult for me. I have been copying and pasting the articles into microsoft word & having word dictate the articles to me. The dictation of the article helps but I find that I learn best by watching videos and taking notes vs reading. I often have to listen to the article twice or even three times to fully grasp everything that was covered. I understand & appreciate this program is designed to benefit all learning types, but this unit in particular just felt extra challenging for me personally.

The assignment projects were a felt tedious and redundant. Not because of the assignment itself but because of the length of the overview leading up to the assignment objectives. The overviews mainly seemed to reiterate what was explained in the video/article prior to the work assignment. Which just meant more reading of what was already covered. I did not find this helpful at all. It just felt like the reiteration or "reminders" took up more time, making the course take even longer to complete due to redundancies. I still read through all of the overviews though just in case there were extra instructions or overall objective points in the overview. Sometimes there were, so I didn't feel I could skip over all of the overviews even though 90% of the information was redundant due to literally the prior article/video before the assignment.