Data analytics Professional Certificate by Google

Data is a group of facts that can take many different forms, such as numbers, pictures, words, videos, observations, and more. Data analytics is the collection, transformation, and organization of these facts in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making. Companies need data analysts to sort through this data to help make decisions about their products, services or business strategies.

The 8 courses of this certificate contain in-demand skills that prepare for an entry-level job like junior or associate data analyst, database administrator, and more.

Data analysts make sense of data and numbers to help organizations make better business decisions. They prepare, process, analyze, and visualize data, discovering patterns and trends and answering key questions along the way. Their work empowers their wider team to make better business decisions. 

The program consists of the following courses:

1. Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere

2. Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions

3. Prepare Data for Exploration

4. Process Data from Dirty to Clean

5. Analyze Data to Answer Questions

6. Share Data Through the Art of Visualization

7. Data Analysis with R Programming

8. Google Data Analytics Capstone: Complete a Case Study

Skills learned:

• Questioning

• Decision-Making

• Problem Solving

• Metadata

• Data Collection

• Data Ethics

• Data Cleansing

• Sample Size Determination

• SQL

• Data Integrity

• Spreadsheet

• Data Calculations

• Data Aggregation

• Tableau Software

• Presentation

• R Programming

• Data Analysis

• Data Visualization (DataViz)

• R Markdown

• Rstudio

• Job portfolio

• Case study