Instructor goes too fast on materials. Inconsistent code. Trouble with run some of them despite of copying them directly from resources

subquery examples were unnecessarily complex. ultimate course design and deliverables were up to the mark no doubt. more detail and easy to understand technical examples would be much appreciated.

This is part 5 of the certificate program. Parts 1- 4 were very slow and boring, and took too much time to cover simple concepts in detail. It's now finally getting into more complex and technical concepts in SQL and spreadsheets, and it's going super quick! Now is the time to go slow and be thorough, and it's racing through the material and skipping steps in the explanations. It recommends links to lots of other free blogs and websites to 'learn more'. I've found these sites do a much better job at explaining these concepts, so what am I paying for with this course? Frankly, if it wasn't for the job placement assistance I would probably quit the certificate process at this point.

The concepts covered in this course were presented well. It does seem that a lot of this course felt more like part 2 of the "Process" step instead of the "Analyze" step. This course helped with learning many new SQL an Spreadsheet functions, however I feel if perhaps some introductory Statistics were included, it would help with the goal of the "Analyze" phase, which is to find trends and relationships in the data.

I've enjoyed Google's Data Analytics Professional Certificate program up to this point... The instructor along with the content of this segment was far from what was described. There was barely any overview in regards to analyzing data... A lot of the content went over functions and formulas that were learned in previous segments and shouldn't have been included in this program. Not only that, the instructor has by far been the worse instructor compared to previous lessons... The narrative was felt rushed and did not allow you to digest any information and I found myself pausing the video more often than ever. If I could skip this whole lecture again, I would.

This course nearly made me want me to quit the program. I felt the instructors course material was a bit disorganized and introduced new functions that were not explained previously, making it very confusing as to what was relevant or important. As well as too many assignment/segments that I felt were a bit off loaded. I understand that it is important to do your own research on things, but I would have prefered if the instructored just teached us more, rather than just dumping out sourced material on us. It was interesting, but it was a bit overwhelming and kind of irrelevant to the course material indirectly.

The instructor glossed over SQL too quickly, seemed like the lecture was for professionals. I spent the longest time completing this course.

This course needs serious help. Some parts were insanely slow such as explaining AS once again. But important parts such as subqueries were just skipped over. I really hope the google team looks into this. There seems to be a lot of complaints in the discussion board.

WORST INSTRUCTOR TILL NOW

I can't rate it higher, especially comparing it to free online content. This whole analytics certification is way-too much theoretical and full of fluff, but this course is the worst so far. This is sad because this course should supposedly cover actual analysis.

Everything in this course is poorly prepared - the range of topics, the order, the explanations, the examples, jumping back and forth between SQL and spreadsheets, the number of mistakes and not updated information, and sadly, the presenter is just not good at explaining things.

This course is mostly about watching the instructor typing the code, with no proper explanation of why we choose to use this or that. And if you REALLY want to learn something from the videos, not just pass the tests, you will spend a huge amount of time pausing the videos & searching for the proper explanation of the syntaxes elsewhere (if you don't believe me check the topics on the forum). Eventually, you will end up knowing really little compared to what you will know after spending the same amount of time doing a proper SQL course.

We are constantly being told how much we've learned, while the truth is we were watching the demonstrations in SQL most of the time (not to be confused with following the instructor while going through the scenario). I believe those surprisingly good grades come from users who believed that they've "learned a lot" because they're unaware of the real expectations in a real job. Finish this course and try to apply what you've supposedly learned by using the presented commands (the more complex and nested ones too) in real scenarios, and you will see what I mean ;)

And finally, I'm confused when it comes to the name of the course - a lot of content on preparing or cleaning the data, but little on the analysis itself.

I'd advice other users to switch completing the weeks 3 & 4, as the queries in week 3 are more difficult than those in 4.

The particular course no.5 seems like a rush. The instructor tone sounds like she just wanted to get this done with and honestly I can't feel an ounce of sincerity or passion. The course pacing is faster than the first 4 courses, giving the vibe that "you're on your own". Not gonna lie I'm disappointed with this course and I hope that course no.6 is much much much better than this one. Not sure if there is any quality check on this course.

Although the instructor is great, I felt like this course less about analysis and much more about learning SQL and spreasheet tools. They are very important, but they are still tools only. I expected to learn frameworks and tips about data analysis or more life examples on how to analyze data.

The Google docs/spreadsheets for the project are all locked. I do not have access to them. I have reported the problem numerous times. It has yet to be fixed nor have I received a response.

The course challenge was hard but I got an A. I have learned forum posts about the data analyst job market and alleged lack of entry-level jobs are being censored by mods. Enrolling in this specialization was a HUGE mistake for me. So I am going to finish up the minimum requirements, get my final paperwork and make these the last I ever take from Coursera or Google. This is my opinion, frank and honest, so it too will prob. get banned.

The instructions are full of errors, and the video goes very fast without enough explanation. Also, the instructor's usage of SQL is inconsistent. For example, sometimes AS is omitted and other times AS is not omitted in aliasing.

horrible instructor....DOESN TEXPLAIN WHY OR HOW .... specifically the JOINS section fucking sucks

dont like the teacher

Disjointed. Lack of continuity. Increased frequency of typos in video transcriptions/subtitles. Complex concepts not explored or explained sufficiently.

WOW. WAY too many questions were asked about ASC vs DESC. What an unremarkable topic to be so focused on, especially considering how easy it is to fix it if one uses the wrong sort order. Considering how many functions there are out there that are so useful, to focus on ASC vs DESC as much as this course did was so ridiculous. Focus on topics that don't take half a second to fix in the real world if you get them wrong. Holy cow.

If you are new to Data Analytics, this course is not for you! This course is extremely fast paced. The instructors don't explain any of the clauses in much detail or when to use them. The instructors pretty much have us copying and pasting the work they are doing and thats about it. Very disappointing course. I am currently enrolled into two other courses so I can try my best to try and keep up with this one.

Another thing, if you need help throughout any of this course there will be nobody there to assist you.

Good Luck!

For the price you're paying this unit is full of mistakes that have only been updated via pop-up message. The instructor is terrible, making mistakes and rushing through SQL queries while also devoting entire segments unimportant topics like "Don't give up". Myself and many users have had to resort to going to the forums to get the proper syntax for queries.

Gratitude!

I am in fact a lifelong learner and I had the opportunity to participated in many top notch development experiences. But none like this. I am amazed! 8:-)

Too bad I didn´t have an opportunity like this before. But never is too late.

I wish that many fellows come by and learn how to improved their skills. Thank you Coursera and Google!!!

Great primer for more complex SQL queries and data processing. I've often just leaned on post-processing data after doing my SQL queries in spreadsheets/python, but with these new tools it should make my processing much more front-loaded!

An excellent course for learning analysis techniques using Spreadsheets and SQL. Recommended for all engineering and data science students as well as for those managing businesses and human resource.

The course content is really good however the course challenge was a bit too easy. A bit tough questions would have made us more accustomed to the different tools we have learnt in this course