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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....

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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 Sherry R

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Aug 7, 2023

There is a lot of great info and guidance here. Discussion of various types of data (some still a bit confusing to me), quantitative, qualitative, structured and unstructured, internal and external, etc. Discussion of data bias, data ethics, data protection, good vs bad data, open data etc. Discussion of importing data, spreadsheets and databases, sorting and filtering, creating datasets and tables, discussion of Boolean logic and SQL syntax, file naming conventions and staying organized. Creating a Kaggle account, a BigQuery account, a LinkedIn account; links to various helpful websites, dealing with Social Media; mentors/sponsors (for the future). All very very useful. Again, I very much like the format of these courses, where you have a few minutes of video, a few minutes of reading, some exercises and quizzes, so a lot of variety, you don't get bored. The "teachers" are enjoyable to listen to, and they have occasional "guest" appearances to throw in some personal perspectives. I end up sitting here at 10 PM thinking "OK, I'll watch just ONE MORE VIDEO..." and before you know it it's 6 AM...

By JOSE D

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Dec 15, 2022

I feel fantastic, like it to know until now this tools to growth in knowledge, until now i think that i have a glance of the universe of DATA analysis, the courses have a lot of theoretical minutes and good references of data driven communities;

Any of those I watched hard to start to use, because i need to learn a lot of stuff to find out how manage (ex. KAGGEL), but i appreciated that let me know this values WEBS, i could enjoy shorts practices minutes and so far i could have barely work in the course with spreadsheets and run simple queries, i hopefully have in advances more practices and knowledge of the tools like spreadsheets and SQL.

I Know that to improve is on me, researching the references that give me but i feel that’s i spend time surfing in other references videos with other formats that could have in these courses. Thanks in advance by open and show me a little the data universe.

By Kirthi P

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May 12, 2023

The course "Prepare Data for Exploration" is designed to teach learners how to clean, manipulate, and preprocess data using Python libraries such as Pandas and NumPy. The course covers data wrangling techniques such as merging, reshaping, and aggregating data, as well as handling missing and inconsistent data.

The course is suitable for individuals with basic knowledge of Python and data analysis. It provides a practical approach to data cleaning and preprocessing, using real-world datasets. The course is also taught by experienced instructors who provide clear explanations and examples throughout the lessons.

Overall, the course "Prepare Data for Exploration" is highly recommended for individuals who want to improve their data cleaning and preprocessing skills in preparation for data exploration and analysis.

By Chinenye A

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Feb 3, 2023

Course was quite Informative. I do feel that more time should have been giving to teaching the technical parts; SQL because I had to do alot of back and forth with external research to be able to thoroughly follow through.

The Bigquery Interface has since changed alot since the time these lessons were prepped to now, and so, the screenshots were confising at some point. I do understand troubleshooting is a good skill to practice, given the scenario, which I was able to pull through, but it wasn't same for a lot of folks at the discussion forums. Some even unenrolled due to this. I don't know what Cousera and google can do but that needs to be fixed.

Every other week from there was faily okay. I am looking foward to more hand-on technical practices with subsequent courses.

By Maryam H

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Nov 22, 2022

Every thing was almost good. Especially the instructor. She was very professional regarding eye contact and being natural in delivering concepts. But, the previous instructor was almost reading from monitor and was not natural and was distracting for me as a learner.

The reason that I did not go for 5 star is that in BigQuery, I had some difficulties at first and it was not described straightforward and also the fact that the course was not updated with new features on BigQuery, make it a bit confusing to get the hang of it.

But, the overall experience was great. I also appreciate for the valuable lessons about networking opportunities that was provided for learners. They are really helpful to join the real world's data analysts and scientists.

By Deepak R D

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Jan 23, 2022

The course was great and it was delivered very by the instructor. The practise exercises with hands on activity was very well delivered. The course covered topics related to preparing data for the Data analysis process and it covered topics ranging from data ethics to data handling on spreadsheets and BigQuery. Hallie was great in delivering the contents of the course so well and I thank her a lot for making this course very interesting. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who is starting their data analytics journey to go with this course. But sometimes the course felt a little stretched and this course might just be a revision for people who are already familiar with the data analysis process.

By Eduard P

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Mar 2, 2022

I enjoyed it, but the 'hard' part (BigQuery) could have been better organised. The videos contain a lot of info that is hard to grasp for newbiews, and they are all bunfled together. Then come readings that give the same info. It would be more useful to group the video and reading related to one topic together. Similarly, the excercises repeat the same task - which is a good thing, given that for people not familiar with SQL and BigQuery , like me, will surely need to do the same task a few times in order to learn how to do it properly. But this could be made clear: as it is, the number of 'hand-on' activities seems daunting. I would suggest restructuring the course to make the learning path more explicit.

By Naren K

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Oct 3, 2021

The course and teaching is awesome, but

The new changes happen in reset deadline is not good, I was in my 1st time line, when i reset, it switching to new timeline and all my previous completed module is not stored in new timeline and they saying to complete again. it not fair

sometimes I don't have time to courses and modules on time, so i reset the deadline, but it become hell in learning progress. already raised many tickets regarding on this issue.

the putting pressure on ME to complete the course. I love to learn, but sometime i don't have time to learn, i am full time working, i got some free time to learn, putting pressure and the learners make more stressful,

PLEASE HELP ON THIS ISSUE

By Dennis T

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Nov 16, 2022

Information packed course and loved the introduction of BigQuery and how to use it to look for and use publicly available data for testing as well as allowing us to upload our own data. I particularly liked the virtual machine setup for a guided hands-on use of BigQuery. I felt though that we didn't cover enough about spreadsheets or the SQL language itself (as a professional who has been using these tools it wasn't really much of a problem) but on the other hand, that's also part of the drive in learning something new by using other online resources to learn more advanced Spreadsheet functions and capabilities as well as learn intermediate SQL skills. Love the pace, love the content.