VEry much agree with this!

by excel do you mean "learning how to use excel"?

Just if they had used Python, then this should have been the most recommended course for beginners I think. Because most of us use python programming instead of R

@@LukeBarousse does google gives this certificate as e-certificate or physical hard copy?

@@niconsantillan8673 it's an e-certificate that you can then print

This is awesome to hear Anant! It sounds like you are powering through the certificate. And yes, please do keep me updated on your thoughts on the course.

Is course 6 only available in us n Canada?

@@AbcDef-ei6oc Should be available world-wide

@@AbcDef-ei6oc to have it available from now, just change your language settings to english

Same here...In course 6 too and enjoying every bit of the process!

How did you get into the industry? Are you already an engineer?

Don't do it then lol, that course is a waste of time, there are better resources on KZfaq if you're only interested in learning

Yeah this is a great point Mike. I also do like the fast track option. So good to have the flexibility to adjust the course based on your knowledge level!

Finally an option that works with what I'm thinking of.

Thanks Luke 🙏

Thank you !

Thank uuu

Thanks man. Looking for the same.

But there is no python in Google

Heck yeah, congrats on the financial aid; always awesome to hear of someone that got it!

Thank you.. might helpful for me

What do you need to get financial aid?

how do you get the financial aid? What kind of writings did you submit?

Yup! I got approved for financial aid for all 8 Google courses! So I finished the certificate for free! It's really helpful if you have money problems

This is also a really good point about the certificates. I haven't had anybody bring up this great perspective before, so thansk for sharing!

How long did it take to complete the course?

Hi, did you do the capstone project ? I enrolled today, now I am worried if the capstone project will be too tough for me. How difficult is it ? Is it doable by oneself if one completes the other courses ? Please reply. A super worried dude here. :|

I agree with you. I am switching to the IBM course.

I agree. Googles course has wayyyyy too much fluff and bounces all over the place. They're trying to keep it exciting, but really they're just making it annoying. The IBM course is less fluff and flow is easy to follow step by step instructions. I do plan on going back to the Google one once im done with the IBM one.....but Im very much preferring the way IBM did it. Google was hard to follow. I felt like it was constantly like... "Just for fun write down some things you did to get ready this morning.....you don't really need to, it's just for fun". - Cupid Cartmans voice A couple of weeks later it's like: (Upload the morning routine spreadsheet you've been having fun with.....oh yeah, just kidding you were required to do it we lied). - Cupid Cartmans voice Arg was very frustrating. The over done acting was like watching some over the top TED talk or something. Not my jam.....bro I'm here because it already excites me, you don't need to give me motivation speeches every 5 mins. The people on the IBM video seem way more genuine and to the point.

Thanks Jose, good luck in your data science journey!

You won't go wrong, the field is full of opportunities for the decade to come

@@bouseuxlatache4140 Cool. Then it's more useful than this Crummy liberal arts degree I have. Stoked

suerte maestro jajajajja

Lo siento pero tengo que hacerlo, Paraguay existe?

Awe thanks for the kind words my dude!

Heck yeah, this is awesome to hear! Good luck with the course!

@@LukeBarousse Thanks Luke.

Yeah or the course may not fit your learning style. May need to try other courses that are better adapted to your preferred method of learning. Thanks for sharing your perspective on the course!

I had the same experience, the videos are so packed with information, great method to learn but they require a lot of time and patience to understand what they are actually doing, specially if you are a beginner with Python.

No problem at all, its' what you all requested!

Thanks for noticing this!

So glad you found it my dude! good luck in your data science journey

This is awesome! Congrats my friend!

It will helps for your future job

Even better! Thats awesome my dude, thanks for sharing! Good luck

@@LukeBarousse I don't believe it will get me a job...

Pls tell if Google Analytics course is paid or free? Pls give link

@@pjos2981 Just Google it. The first 7 days are free...

@@pjos2981 Link is in description and will show after click link. Cost is depedent on what country you are in

Thanks for the kind words my dude!

It sounds like you are knocking out courses, I like the motivation!! Keep up the great work as well my friend!!

@@LukeBarousse After I read what I had written, I can see I made many typing mistakes 😅 Thank you so much 🌹❤

Thanks my friend, good luck with the course!

I feel your pain my dude! My recommendation, power through this certification using R, and develop your python skills after. No harm in knowing both.

@@LukeBarousse 😎👍 thanks, I will definitely do it

@@LukeBarousse would you say it's easier to learn R as a beginner without any knowledge of python or programming ?

@@drmanny39 I would say it has a slightly easier learning curve, but really can't go wrong with either

@@LukeBarousse is it worth it to get Data Analytics certificate Yes or NO

Awe thanks so much for this Nethmina!! I appreciate the kind words!

Awe Granville, thanks for the kind words! Glad I could answer your questions!!

Thanks for the kind words Shenal! I appreciate it!

Snehal i need to do data analyst i have few doubts can i have ur mail id

Good luck on the transition Qhialdy!!

Thanks for the kind words Ammar!

Awe thanks so much. I love making visualizations!! haha

Good to know, thank you for sharing and good luck!

is it free?

@@beautyofindia6137 it's $39/month after a 7-day trial. Not free, but a hell of a lot cheaper than college with the added benefit of help with finding a job when you're done. Plus there are financial aid options available for some

It starts out slow to me... What do you think?

@@beautyofindia6137 No, you have to login to see the price, it's dependent on your country.

Thanks so much for this. Really been trying to work on talking slowly and clearly, glad you were able to follow along!

Thanks for sharing Sid! I appreciate your insight as a Data Analyst. I'm also a fellow ME major, ha!

Hey, could you please guide me on how to get an internship in data analytics I am in my FY of BA. Thank you

I'm also mechanical student. Now working in data analytics and machine learning. I'm an associate software engineer now

@@ultraeye3919 Good luck my dude!

Hi, please guide me on how to start career/get an internship in data analytics too.

I try to keep it short and too the point! Thanks for the kind words and the sub!

Do both..

Awe thanks for the kind words Vambah!

Thank you so much for this!!

Awesome, glad you got use out of it! If you're going to be investing significant time into these certs I think its useful to know this!!

Good to hear! Thank you for sharing this for others!

Poderia me informar como vc alterou para esse valor? aqui esta aparecendo o preço em dólares. Obrigado.

Glad it was helpful!

why you want to change man? frontend is awesome.

Awe Luciano, thanks so much for this!! Every video I'm working to improve the quality so I appreciate that you notice this!! Stay tuned for more!

Very much agree with this. Or evaluate shifting to a lower price model!

​@@LukeBarousse They spend all the money on completely unnecessary benefits and luxuries anyway.

Hello Koustubh! I want to switch from mechanical (4 years) to IT field. Do you think Google DA Cert alone will help me get a job as data analyst?

@@imaginarystranger1974 💯The student debt crisis the US is facing is predicated on the fact that student loan debt is not dischargeable via bankruptcy, which means they've got people on the hook for life. This leads to a predatory lending model, because they would be dumb to NOT get as many starry-eyed 18 year olds as possible to sign up for student loans. This in turn leads to vast amounts of money swirling around in the system which leads to a predatory pricing model at universities, because they would be dumb to NOT snap up as much of that money as possible from all those starry-eyed 18 year olds. However, the money that is snapped up by the universities really doesn't go towards student education, it goes towards football teams, stadiums, luxury fitness centers, higher pay for administrative management, etc. Look at it this way: since 1990, average tuition and fee rates have increased 130% after adjusting for inflation. A 130% increase! Now ask yourselves why that is? Does anyone really think that universities have increased the qualities of their educational offerings by 130%? Doubtful. It's just a money grab. Anyway, that's a really long and roundabout way of saying that I totally agree with you. 😅

@@napalm1101 Thanks for the comment!

Ha, yeah buddy!

Good luck in finishing the course!

Awe Aditya, thank you so much for the kind words! I appreciate it!

Same! Wish we could mix and match!

Exactly what I wished 😔

I loved because the R component, so much Python courses in the market no need for one more.

Agree, you have to show experience with the certificate to communicate the value to employers. This video goes deeper into how to get a job with it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKt7i7Wi1s2sc6s.html

Thank you!

But he is a Data Analyst

Nice! Good luck in your data science journey!

@@LukeBarousse You are awesome officer!

Thanks for sharing this! I appreciate your insights, completely agree that companies need to come to understand the power of these certificates!

Heck yeah! Glad to hear Anant!

Awe thanks for the kind words Sati! Appreciate it.

No problem at all Steve! Glad you got use out of this video!

Awesome glad you enjoyed it!

I try to keep it short and sweet! Thanks!

This is great information to know Nived! Thank you for taking the time to share!

why do you waste time redoing the same thing , u should look for a work now

@@semlali06 I'm doing internship in Seimens as a Mechanical Engineer. Data Analytics is just an interest. I'm taking classes from Google just because it's promising something that could revolutionise the whole MOOC scenario. + they're gonna teach us R and Tableau which is great right?

If you only had money to take 1 of these 2 courses, what would you choose?

@@Im_DevN if you are more interested in data than ur current job then u should have a certificate and seek for a job , u already an engineer so maybe data scientist suits u more !

So glad the video helped, Sonica!

This is so awesome to hear!! Thanks for the kind words and positivity!!

Heck yeah, this is good to know! thank you for sharing

I feel your pain Leo 🤣. It's "only" about 40 hours so maybe you can just power through it pretty quick since you have an understanding of python.

@@LukeBarousse i might just do that and never touch R again in my life :'D. Thank you

R is an ok tool for one-off data analysis, individual projects and stuff like that. However, when it comes to bigger companies where there are Data Engineers, Data Analysts and ML/DL Engineers they all need to use one common language to understand what they're doing (more or less), deploy pipelines and other stuff. That's where Python is coming into play and that's why it's popular. Whether or not you should know Java/Scala depends on what you would like to do in the future - the only scenario would be if your organization is relying heavily on Spark and you like more a backend kind of job (pays well but not much recognition from the top brass compared even to DA's). And knowing Java well is a great skill on it's own in IT. Spark is a great tool as well - I never hear about it being mentioned in videos for DA's but so many times in companies people are working with data sets so big that it takes so much time to complete (I don't see your average DA using threading or jit to speed up the Python code unfortunately, some at least know a thing or two about numpy) due to hardware constraints and with Spark you can accomplish the same work in no time. Additionally it has a really low entrance point for those who analyze data mainly in Python thanks to the great Python API and they can make a visable effect with just minimal training in pyspark.

So glad this could help! Thanks for this!

Hey Minna, I'm not to sure on why they chose R as I wish they chose Python. But overall, I don't think that it is a big deal. I first learned R and then transitioned to Python. I find that R is used more in research and academia so its popular oputions there, although in production use cases I'm finding Python is more popular. My recommendation is get through the course and then take courses on Python to uplevel your skills.

@@LukeBarousse Thank you for your reply. After I read through the course structure. I think it's a very good one and learning R is not a bad idea after all since I already know some Python n some libraries. And as you have mentioned, it seems that both are used widely in the industry, so I think it's better to know both. I'm in audit mode now and will see how it goes. So far I think it's a very interesting course.

@@minnami778 Hi Minna, do you think the course of R in Google certificate is friendly for the programming beginners?

R is not that user friendly as compared to python

I think that the google course is a great start for data analytics. But it seems your interest is more around data scientist topics. For that I may recommend Ken Jee or Tina Huang's Channel as they have better recommendations for data scientist

@@LukeBarousse Thanks for the channel recommendations, I’ll check them out!

Same to you!! And thank you!

DID YOU JUST CALL ME A NERD! 🤣🤣 Thanks Julio for the kind words my friend!

Lolz... thanks my dude!

Thank you so much Manny! Appreciate it!

Thanks my dude!

Hey my dude thanks for the kind words. I think this certificate would be a good start to get you to your next role so Yes I would recommend it. Not sure on the dataquest as I have never used this platform before.

Great question, these two depending on your need: Python Basics 👉🏼 click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=9Dai7v38Rms&mid=40328&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coursera.org%2Fspecializations%2Fpython%3F Python for Data Science 👉🏼 click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=9Dai7v38Rms&mid=40328&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coursera.org%2Fspecializations%2Fdata-science-python

@@LukeBarousse awesome video! Thank you for the information!!

yeah it is and it continues to grow as well with employers! Thanks for checking this out!

Awe thank you so much and thank you for the sub!!!

This course is for beginners. You have what it takes to start.

Same! but just power through it, and then get to the better language after you're done!

Glad you got use out of this video!! Thank you!

Thanks Ashmeet!!

Can you apply data science with your finance experience? (I think so). In that case I would recommend the cert to utilize to learn more to start getting data analytic jobs in finance

Glad this was helpful my dude! Greetings as well!

Heck yeah, so glad this video could be of use!

Just learn both...

Yeah I agree with Sandy. I learned R first and then switched to Python. It's really not a big deal and makes you more rounded as an individual

Ha! You noticed, thats awesome! And no problem at all, thanks for asking the question and inspiring me to make this video!

No probs Guru!

I don't know if I would recommend that. A lot of repetitive information. You would be better suited to pick one... and then go for a course specializing in only teaching R or Python

@@LukeBarousse oh ok thanks. Any recommended courses for Python? Since im most likely to start the google one.

Yeah thats why I made this video. It's a SIGNIFICANT time investment so you need to be informed. Thanks again my dude!

Thank you so much, I'm glad this helped! What did you choose BTW?

@@LukeBarousse I chose the Google Data Analytics Professional Certification. Apart from what you mention in your video, it uses tools that I see mentioned in many Data Analyst and Data Engineer job posts

@@simone-clairecampbell6624 Heck yeah, this is awesome to hear!! Good luck with the course!

SAME! I just want to analyze data and ride bikes too!! Def think that a combo of certificates and degrees is the perfect mix!

🤣 Yeah was like WTF when I went to get a screenshot of the enrolled now after I filmed this... hahah

And data science from John Hopkings university? *400k enrolled*

Enrolled != Completed, right?

Isn't Data Analytics becoming obsolete with AI & Machine Learning growing so popular?

@@YourMajesty143 its considered the sexiest job of the decade

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks os much for sharing this honest persepctive. Good luck in your job search my dude, you got this!!

@@LukeBarousse Than you so much!! Appreciate the kind words. I will keep looking and trying that's for sure!

@@abdullah1299 did you get a job?

Glad it was helpful, Baishnabi!!

So glad you found it useful!

No problem Faraz! Hope you enjoyed!