what's going on everybody welcome back to another video today we
will be looking at the top five data analyst courses on coursera
now if you are watching this video you most likely are looking for courses to learn the skills to
become a data analyst and i have taken so many courses and i've taken terrible courses and i've
taken really really great courses that have taught me fantastic things and today i'm going to show
you the ones that i have been taking or have taken in the past that i genuinely enjoy that i think
that you will really benefit from and that will help you learn the correct skills to become a data
analyst faster and i actually did a video about a year and a half ago on my favorite coursera
courses but i gave multiple options for each skill and in this video i'm only going to give
one option for each skill the one that i think is the absolute best the one that i think that
there is no reason to look any further this is the one that you should take for each specific skill
so if you're looking for my recommendation on the exact course that you should take you are in the
right place but before we jump into it i want to give a shout out to the sponsor of this video and
that is coursera now listen i was going to make this video whether coursera sponsored it or not
that's just because i love corsair and i've been using them for about five years and i've learned
just a ton of different things on there and a lot of the courses that i'm recommending are
ones that i learned a ton from when i was first starting out as a data analyst and ones that i'm
even taking today and so if you were looking for a place to learn the skills to become a data analyst
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video now without further ado let's jump on my screen and take a look all right so let's get
started and the very first one that we're going to take a look at is the google data analytics
professional certificate and if you've done any research at all on courses to take to become a
data analyst i guarantee you you've seen this one uh it's kind of the new popular one that a
lot of people are taking i'm about 90 of the way through myself um i am only taking it because
i want to take it for you guys so that i can review it and and share what my thoughts are
so i'm not completed with it but what i will say is it's really really great for beginners it's not
for people who are like intermediate level or trying to become more advanced this is like an
intro to data analytics so it'll teach you a lot of the building blocks but it won't teach you a
lot of the more advanced things and so if you are just starting out and you're a complete beginner
and you're just wanting to learn the building blocks and the basics to become a data analyst
this is a fantastic place to start all right so let's scroll down right here into what you will
learn and honestly the only thing that i'm going to take a look at is this part right here so we
have spreadsheets sql r programming and tableau so you're going to be learning you know basically
excel sql a programming language and tableau which is a bi tool of data visualization tool
and these are a lot of the things that i tell people to start with of course our programming
i tell people to learn python but our program is kind of like another option it's a really
good option and so this is going to teach you a lot of those basics we can go take a look at
the courses you may not get a ton out of this but some of the things that you'll learn how to do are
how to clean up data how to analyze the data visualizing it and then at the very end you have
a capstone project and i'm a huge fan of projects myself again i'm about 90 of the way through
i am in uh the r programmer right now and i have absolutely no complaints and so if you
are a beginner and you're looking for a place to start this is the exact course that i would
take the next course that i recommend is the ibm data analyst professional certificate i have taken
this one all the way through i also took the ibm data science professional certificate but
uh this one is the one i recommend for people to become data analysts the data science one
goes over some machine learning stuff and some extra stuff that i really don't think you'll
most likely ever use if you're a data analyst so let's take a look at this one really quick
you're gonna be learning a lot of excel sql and python honestly a lot of python which is fantastic
i learned a ton of python just from this because there's like a ton of different courses within
the specialization and they also use ibm cognos analytics which is like a web-based bi tool and
so you're going to learn a lot of the fundamentals of how to use a visualization tool and this one to
me is almost like the counter to the google data analytics professional certificate because that
one teaches r this one teaches python and so if you're wanting to learn python and a lot of those
building blocks as well this one may be for you except i will say that this one is a little bit
more difficult it is fairly beginner friendly because they walk you through these things but
i found this one a lot more challenging than i did the google data analytics professional certificate
so if you're wanting an all-around introduction as well as learning python and it to be a little
bit more difficult this is the course for you the next one that we're going to look at is this one
right here which is the learn sql basics for data science specialization so if you're going
on to coursera to look for a sql course this is the one that i would take now i have taken
several courses on coursera to learn sql and this one to me is the best more specifically
if we scroll down right here to the courses there's this sequel for data science but there is
this entire specialization if you want to take the whole thing because it includes a project and some
data wrangling and analysis stuff but to me the best part of this was the sequel for data science
it it really does walk through it extremely well so if you're wanting to learn sql and you want to
go a little bit more in depth than what you'll get in the google and the ibm certifications
this is the one that i would recommend because it just goes a little bit more in depth and probably
takes you more towards the intermediate level than just the beginner that you'll get in those other
courses the next one that we're going to look at is python for everybody now i cannot speak highly
enough of this course i have probably taken this one myself about three times and that is because
chuck aka charles is probably one of the best python teachers i have ever met i have honestly
never taken an all-round better python course than this one right here that is because chuck
just does an absolutely amazing job the only downside to taking this is that this is going
to teach you python as a whole it is not going to be data analyst specific but i myself wanted
to learn python as a whole at first and then i started to specialize and really hone in on a lot
of the things that were data analyst specific so that is the only downside to taking this one but
let's take a look at some of the things that you will learn uh it's programming for everybody again
this is going to teach you all the basics all the building blocks uh python data structures
using python to access web data so this is a lot of like data scraping and web scraping
using python with databases and then you have a capstone project again this to me is
by far the best python course you are going to find out there it is in if you look at the
reviews they're going to say the same thing it's just absolutely phenomenal so if you want a python
course that is only python and teaches you as a whole this is the course that i would take and
the next one and the last one that we are going to look at is the data visualization with tableau
specialization now typically when i recommend api tool i tell people to learn tableau first
i'm not telling them not to learn click or power bi or the other tons of options that you can learn
i just think tableau gives you more options to find jobs and that is what is really important
when you're learning these basic skills you want to make yourself as marketable as possible so with
that being said this tableau course incredible i have taken this at least twice uh if not
more in the past several years and it's absolutely phenomenal let's go down to the courses you'll
learn the fundamentals as well as the essentials of design principles and a lot of these things you
just don't even think about if you just look at the basics of tableau it's fairly simple
but as you get into it as you get into the more advanced things and you start using it in your job
these are the things that you're actually going to need to know and you probably would not
know if you didn't take this course um if you just watched like again like my youtube series it's
pretty basic i'm teaching you the intro how to use it how to get started with it this is how you get
really advanced and you get to the really good stuff that's going to help you excel in your job
uh and then at the very end they are going to have so yeah you'll learn how to create dashboards but
at the very end they have a tableau project and i am just such a big believer in projects so uh
all these courses that have these projects at the end i just love them because you know it teaches
you how to actually do an end-to-end project and you can use that to put in your portfolio
and so uh with that being said that is it these are the five courses that i would take so if you
were looking on coursera and you're like i just don't know what to take there's so many options
look no further take these ones these ones will get you where you need to go if you know exactly
what you're looking for so if you are just a beginner i recommend the google data analytics
professional certificate or the ibm data analyst professional certificate depending on if you're
like a true true beginner or if you really want to learn python if you're a true beginner
do the google one if you are a little bit more advanced or you really only want to learn python
do the ibm data analyst professional certificate uh then we have the sql one the python one and the
tableau one and that's it and you'll learn excel in those first two but these skills are the ones
i highly recommend focusing on and as you are learning them build out projects and use the
projects that they have already in these courses because you can build out a portfolio as you go
so with that being said i hope that this video has been helpful if you didn't know what courses to
take hopefully now you do i remember when i made the first video i gave about two or three options
per skill and almost all the comments were like well which one is better which one should i take
and so that is what this video is i'm just kind of whittling it down to the best of the best as well
as some new ones that have come along since i made that video and again i hope that it's helpful so
with that being said thank you guys so much for watching i really appreciate
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