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About the Course

This is the fifth course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore what it means to actually analyze your data. You’ll take what you’ve learned up to this point and apply it to make sense of the data you’ve collected. You’ll learn how to organize and format your data using spreadsheets and SQL to help you look at and think about your data in different ways. You’ll also find out how to perform complex calculations with your data to address business objectives. You’ll learn how to use formulas, functions, and SQL queries as you conduct your analysis. 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: - Learn how to organize data for analysis. - Understand the processes for formatting and adjusting data. - Explore how to aggregate data in spreadsheets and by using SQL. - Use formulas and functions in spreadsheets to make data calculations. - Learn how to complete calculations using SQL queries....

Top reviews

PB

Dec 23, 2022

Very good and useful practice of SQL. The JOIN party is pretty hardcore so I definitely couldn't master it but got enough of an understanding where I could learn quickly with some on the job training.

TK

Jan 6, 2022

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.

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By samsil a

Dec 26, 2021

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.

By David B

May 18, 2021

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.

By Sara S

Oct 27, 2021

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.

By Thảo H

Dec 23, 2021

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

By Kevin T

Jan 25, 2023

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.

By Mohamed A A E

Jul 22, 2022

WORST INSTRUCTOR TILL NOW

By Tyler J

Oct 7, 2022

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.

By Uje A

Jun 7, 2021

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

By Sarah K

Jan 5, 2023

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.

By Daniel G M

Jun 1, 2021

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.

By Kaiden N

May 12, 2021

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.

By Kamila P

Jul 2, 2023

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.

By Chew W H

Mar 25, 2023

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.

By mark m

May 27, 2021

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.

By Byung-Jae K

Jan 30, 2023

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.

By c

Oct 28, 2022

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

By Rajdeep B

Mar 23, 2022

dont like the teacher

By Candice H

Oct 14, 2021

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

By EJ

Jul 26, 2021

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.

By Rosana S

Apr 3, 2021

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!!!

By N. L

Mar 16, 2021

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!

By Temur K

Jan 7, 2022

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.

By Debabrata G

Sep 1, 2021

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

By Jazmin R A

Sep 13, 2022

The instructional videos are slow when explaining basics learned in past courses and superfast when introducing new ones. It makes following along so difficult.

By Jessica C

Jul 5, 2022

This course was so incredibly frustrating. Some of the modules answers are wrong. Please check the discussion boards for the right information. The content taught was complex but not clearly explained, yet the quizzes are so simple?? Whoever wrote the script for this course did not allow the course to flow like the previous courses. They also skipped around. Some material on the videos that weren't previously expalined were explained later on in the course.

This one was disheartening for me because I couldn't understand why the course material suddenly became so difficult. I'm not sure if I have a good grasp of SQL or not because the the material was difficult & hard to understand, the module answers didn't always match what I got when I followed along, and the quizzes were so simple that I don't think they accurately gauge knowledge.