Why Google Data Analytics?
The Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate is widely recognized as one of the most effective entry points into data analysis. Over 80% of graduates report a positive career outcome within 6 months.
The curriculum mirrors the exact day-to-day workflow of junior data analysts: taking unstructured business questions, retrieving data from SQL databases, cleaning records, running statistical calculations in R or Excel, and presenting executive dashboards in Tableau.
The 4 Tools You Will Master
Spreadsheets
Excel & Google Sheets data cleaning, formulas, and pivot tables.
SQL
Database queries, JOINs, aggregations, and subqueries.
Tableau
Interactive business intelligence dashboard design.
R Language
Data manipulation with tidyverse & charting with ggplot2.
Course Breakdown (8 Modules)
Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere
Understanding the data ecosystem, analytical thinking, spreadsheet basics, and data-driven decision making.
Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions
Defining project scope, effective stakeholder communication, and asking structured business questions.
Prepare Data for Exploration
Data structures, databases, data privacy, and accessing external data using SQL SELECT queries.
Process Data from Dirty to Clean
Data integrity, cleaning techniques in Excel and SQL, checking for missing values, and data transformation.
Analyze Data to Answer Questions
Organizing and calculating data, SQL calculations, aggregation functions, and conditional formatting.
Share Data Through the Art of Visualization
Designing dashboards in Tableau, data storytelling principles, and presenting findings to executive teams.
Data Analysis with R Programming
RStudio fundamentals, tidyverse package, data frames, ggplot2 visualisations, and automated report creation.
Google Data Analytics Capstone Project
Building a real-world case study project from scratch to publish in your job application portfolio.
Build Your Data Analyst Career
Pair your Google certificate with our step-by-step Data Analyst roadmap, CV templates, and real-world interview prep questions.