hey everyone i'm aliena and welcome to my channel recently i finished the google data analytics
professional certificate courses in around four months studying for about 30 minutes per day
this is a course review video for anyone who's interested in data analysis i will cover exactly
what does the course offer and what to expect the course link is in the video description
first of all this is a course offered by google on coursera platform for people who are interested in
becoming a data analyst you don't really need any data analysis background to take the course
the price is 39 per month for the coursera platform subscription the course is self-paced
you can learn it at any time and it has some short videos readings quizzes activities and a
capstone project i'd like to remind you that this is not just one course that you can finish in one
sitting instead it is a huge certificate consists of eight smaller certificate courses it's like
having eight chapters of this big course if you have previous experience of data analysis and you
are only looking forward to improve one specific area then you can take one smaller specific course
and you will still get a certificate but it's just for that specific chapter you completed it started
with very intuitive and easy to understand content in the first few certificate courses and then move
to something way more technical these courses are structured to teach you the data analysis process
ask prepare process analyze share and act in addition you'll also learn the technical
tools you needed to become a data analyst and that includes spreadsheets sql Big Query kaggle tableau
and R programming language the final certificate course is a capstone project
in which you'll complete following a guidebook and you can choose from two tracks you can either
work with existing question and data set or you can follow your own case study plans
this capstone project helps you to build up a portfolio besides the course also provides
you some guidance on finding a job such as how to write a resume how to build portfolios on github
Kaggle tableau medium wordpress or google sites* how to take interviews and how to negotiate salary
now let's talk about what i like about the course the first thing being that it is short and to the
point i know it can take months to finish but when it comes to the actual content and the individual
videos it's always a short video and there's no nonsense in the videos unlike you know listen to
lectures for hours the course is also extremely practical no matter what concept it brings up
google does a great job on connecting that concept to a practical real world example
it always connects a technical problem to a real business problem and that is something you might
not get from other courses another thing i like about the course is that it is comprehensive
and resourceful it teaches things like design thinking visualization how to prepare a
slideshow and present these things are really really important when it comes to actual work
but it can be something that we neglected while we are learning the hardcore skills
there are also many links you can refer to if you want to dig into a topic in some cheat sheet you
can download and use it anytime finally i like it that google did a good job on making technical
content not so scary this course did a great job on providing you just enough of the instruction
you need to solve these problems and it also helps you to find an online version of the tools you
need just in case you don't want to go through all the hassles to download all these softwares
and when it comes to problem sets you just can't figure it out it always provides you the right
answer and the right code in a different file so you can just see oh that's the right answer
now let's talk about what i disliked the first thing i dislike is the learning curve
of the course in the beginning it's easy and intuitive but suddenly it feels like it jumps
into something very technical this actually happens to every single google course and i
think it's designed intentionally to help people get started so it's good in a way
but bad in a way and i'd like to remind you that just because you finished the first few
certificate courses in a few hours doesn't mean you can do the same for the rest of the courses
another thing i didn't like about the course is the lack of peer-graded assignment unlike
other courses that google offers on coursera like the ux course and the project management course
those courses all have peer graded assignments so whenever you upload something other people
will grade it however for the activities in this course no one will really grade your activities
so no one really knows how well did you do in these activities or did you really do it or not
but i want to remind you that these activities are like the gold because these activities are
really well designed by google which have a lot of practical experiences and other courses may
not offer finally another thing that i think the course could improve upon is the capstone project
now i've done a capstone project for the ux course the project management course but for this course
it's just one pdf pump follow the instructions and complete everything i'm a little bit used to other
forms where i need to complete multiple activities and then combine them to one final project but for
this one you really need to be self-motivated to complete the entire capstone project and i
highly recommend you to do so because that's what will be going into your resume and your portfolio
before i end this video i'd like to offer you some study tips that i use first i think making a plan
either study plan or career plan will be really helpful and don't be too optimistic and don't be
too rushed simply because this plan will help you to have an idea of why you are taking the course
why you should keep taking the course and what you want to learn from the course and what would you
do after finish the course i also suggest you to find two accountability partners this helps you to
get into a competition environment where you guys are motivating each other to to finish the course
but also collaborate in a way so that you guys can help each other out there are so many contents and
resources in this course so i highly suggest you to find an organized way to take notes and
especially taking notes in a digital form because there are spreadsheets links and code you don't
want to write code on pen and paper finally and this is the most important thing i want to say to
you is try to adapt to a growth-oriented mindset instead of a goal-oriented mindset now when we're
doing these certificate courses it's very easy to get into the track about thinking ah when can i
get that certificate that certificate is a piece of paper and just by putting that certificate
into your resume really doesn't help you to find a job instead what can really get you the job is the
knowledge you acquire the skills you acquired and also the project you showcased in your portfolio
finally if you want to take the course the link is in the description
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