Google Data Analytics prep, free.
The Google Data Analytics Certificate is a set of graded courses from Google that ends in a certificate.
What is Google Data Analytics?
The Google Data Analytics Certificate is a set of graded courses from Google that ends in a certificate.
Who takes it?
People starting out in data analysis.
What costs money?
The study plan here costs nothing. The test itself has a fee, set by Google. The official site lists it.
How do I show my score?
Upload the score screen with ID numbers hidden. Someone who saw the real result confirms it.
What Google Data Analytics is
- Set by
- Who takes it
- People starting out in data analysis.
- Sections
- Graded courses, Case study
- Dates and fees
- On the owner's site: official dates, official fees.
The free plan
The study plan, the official practice, the best free help, your proofs and your Trophy Case are free. Work through the outcomes in order.
Before you upload a score screen or a score report, hide your registration, roll, application and ID numbers. Powstik never asks for an ID number. Someone who saw the real result confirms it: a teacher, counsellor, tutor or study partner. They are told to send back any proof that shows an ID number.
1. Earn Google Data Analytics Certificate
Complete all 8 courses of the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate and apply skills to a capstone dataset.
- Complete Certificate Foundations and Demonstrate Spreadsheet Competence
Show: 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.
- Complete SQL and R Modules with Independent Analyses
Show: Submit: (a) completion screenshots for the SQL and R certificate courses, (b) a SQL script on a real public database (BigQuery Public Datasets, SQLite, or PostgreSQL) performing at minimum a JOIN across two tables, an aggregate with GROUP BY, and a filter — with a 200-word explanation of what it answered, and (c) an R script on a real dataset that reads data, cleans it, produces two ggplot2 visualisations, with a 300-word analysis of results.
- Complete the Certificate and Produce a Portfolio Case Study
Show: Submit: (a) your Google Data Analytics Certificate completion credential, (b) an independent case study (minimum 1,000 words) presenting a business question, data source, cleaning and analysis methodology, visualisations, and a specific written recommendation, and (c) a Q&A log from presenting to a data professional (minimum 300 words with at least two methodological challenges and your responses).
- Complete Certificate Foundations and Demonstrate Spreadsheet Competence
Go deeper
The test checks the field. Powstik Varsity teaches it, with free full courses in order.
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