Complete all 8 courses of the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate and apply skills to a capstone dataset.
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Complete Certificate Foundations and Demonstrate Spreadsheet Competence
4–6 weeks
The Google Data Analytics Certificate covers data foundations, spreadsheets, SQL, R programming, and data visualisation across eight courses (free audit via Coursera). Complete the first three courses. Then demonstrate practical spreadsheet competence by analysing a real public dataset — not the certificate's teaching datasets.
Proof required
Submit: (a) completion badges or screenshots from the first three certificate courses, and (b) a spreadsheet analysis on a real public dataset demonstrating: data cleaning (at least 3 data quality issues identified and resolved), pivot tables summarising by at least 2 dimensions, at least 2 charts with axis labels and interpretive titles, and a 300-word written summary of what the analysis revealed.
What gets checked
Dataset is real and publicly available — not a certificate teaching dataset
Data cleaning is documented — what issues were found and what action was taken
Charts have interpretive titles that state the finding, not just describe the data axis
Resources
Google Data Analytics Certificate — Official Page
Kaggle Datasets — Free Public Data
Complete SQL and R Modules with Independent Analyses
Complete the Certificate and Produce a Portfolio Case Study
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