Google Data Analytics Professional Certification

This course gave me a formal introduction into data analytics. I was able to gain knowledge and understanding on the importance of best professional practices while working with data.

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Google on Coursera

Data Analytics

181 Hours

10/22-12/22

8 Courses

Highlights of what was covered:

Overviewed data analysis, data analytics, and data ecosystems, and how data is used in organizational decision-making

Learned how to ask SMART questions to make data-driven decisions, use spreadsheets, and work effectively with stakeholders

Explored analytical thinking skills, the data analysis process, and the use of spreadsheets, SQL, and data visualizations as core data tools

Practiced cleaning data in spreadsheets and SQL databases, and learned how important it is to verify, document, and report the cleaning process to ensure data integrity

Organized, sorted, filtered, and aggregated data for analysis, and performed basic calculations with functions and formulas in spreadsheets, and SQL queries and temporary tables in databases

Learned about design thinking, created visualizations and dashboards in Tableau, and worked on my communication skills to present engaging data-driven stories

Wrote code in the R programming language to clean and analyze data, used RStudio to edit and run my code, and created detailed data visualizations in RStudio