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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....

Top reviews

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

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.

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By Sunny L

Jul 19, 2021

I am very happy with this course. I t helps me to more understand about preparing data and very excited about SQL which is so powerful tools to make things easier for analysing data.

By Jovie N B

Nov 8, 2022

This course is great for beginners llike myself that has little or no knowledge at all about data analytics but still willing to learn. Google Data Analytics is highly recommended.

By VTP P

Jan 13, 2024

The course provides a comprehensive and well-structured learning experience, covering essential concepts with clarity and offering valuable resources for a thorough understanding.

By Daniela M

Jan 28, 2023

Excelente curso, me permitió mejorar mis conocimientos de Spreadsheets, SQL, ética y seguridad de data; además de adquirir nuevos cocimientos sobre data y plataformas como Kaggel.

By Ahmed G

Jul 28, 2021

This course really provides the overall idea to understand how to organize the data before analyzing it. And also teaches many technical skills of using spreadsheets and BigQuery.

By Palani R

Jul 14, 2022

I'd want to thank everyone who participated in Coursera. I've finished Prepare Data for Exploration. The lessons for the course were excellent, and they were helpful for my work.

By Chinnus s

Oct 16, 2021

It was a really understandable and interesting course as part of the 8 course data analytics programme where I got to learn a lot about SQL and excel and various other new topics

By Rahul S

Jun 27, 2022

Again a beautiful course in this Professional Certificationation Path. Thankyou to Google for this awesome course. My aim is to become a successful data analyst and join Google.

By Ezra M

May 15, 2022

i Thoroughly enjoyed this course, i learnt alot about the bigQuery warehouse and its best practices which i was confused about before. Also, the instructor had great one-liners.

By Onyeukwu C

Aug 8, 2022

I really love this course. It opened my eyes in the use of Excel and spreadsheet for data preparation. This is awesome. Thank you CourseraCoursera for the opportunity to learn.

By Hugo E R G

Nov 11, 2021

It's Amazing!!! It has the principles you need to prepare the data, and I'm not talking about formatting, but it's also to prepare it from security, ethics and privacy. Awsome!

By TAHER A Y Y

Oct 11, 2021

Thank you very much, my teacher, Haley. I cannot describe how amazing and valuable the information in this course is. Thank you very much GOOGLE . Thank you very much Coursera.

By Ali J

Oct 8, 2021

Excellent information and refresher on functions in almost all necessary applications.

A lot of references and websites facilitate learning potential and can be easily reviewed.

By Amin K

Sep 5, 2021

It was interesting Course. learned a lot of things like spreadsheets, SQL basic and data structures, Google BigQuery etc. Going ahead to become certified Google Data Analytics

By Martin G

Feb 6, 2023

What an excellent course, it was great to learn about BigQuery and play around with public data sets, not quite got my head around Kaggle but I guess that will come with time!

By Andr1

Jan 30, 2023

Great, this improve my understanding and confident. Some of the portal such as kaggle, github, etc should be put more emphasize as those are new things for a beginner like me.

By Lalith v

Aug 22, 2021

Good course, I like the way how they are teaching. Even though i had masters degree in big data management and analytics, This course proved to be insightful and very helpful.

By Manvitha N

Jun 12, 2021

This course has helped me gain more confidence to get ready for my data to be analyzed. The instructor is very informative and felt like learning from a friend. Thanks Google!

By Mylène Y

Dec 30, 2023

Great crouse that helps you understand data analytics for beginners. The hands on activities help with practicing using every day data challenges that may raise in your job.

By Kanchana B P

Sep 9, 2022

Instructor has explained each and every concept so clearly. Millions of thanks to them to all those who have put their effort in creating this amazing study course material.

By Daniil P

Jul 23, 2021

Очень добротный курс, особенно для тех, кто только начинает. Уже почти полгода работаю в компании и нахожу для себя интересные вещи, а работать с BigQuery - одно удовольствие

By Jo-sha C

Apr 10, 2023

The instructor was amazing who is extremely knowledgeable on the subject matter and was able to convey information in an effective way. I also appreciated her enthusiasm.

By Steven N S

Feb 14, 2023

The course is fun and the instructor made it easy for me to absorb the lessons. It was great having to do many practice tests and activities engaging in Kaggle and BigQuery.

By Anjishnu R

Dec 1, 2022

Just too good!!! Really happy with the way of teaching the materials and the first hand professional touch in it!! How in reality a work scenario is ...thanks and regards!!!

By Nelson W

Jul 13, 2021

I really loved this course. I feel like I learned a lot and saw the potential to learn a lot more. It feels like we are getting into the nitty gritty of data analytics now.