It’s a great course, helps, and in light me more than I expected in what to focus my question and who and when I ask especially the type of the question and the level of the people I should ask.

Personally, I felt I was being lectured in some mistakes in the past relating with some clients who i freelanced for recemtly. So far so good, this is the best course I have taken on coursera

Some good hands on stuff, but a lot of review if you've done some stuff with spreadsheets already. Really it seems like it's naming and categorizing things I learned on my own.

Everything was on point you didn't bring to much deep information about topics which is understandable because, I who is one of the participants is a student and I don't have a lots of experience about it to deeply understand it , but I still think that topic Metric should be given a bit more explanation otherwise everything was perfect for a beginner like me, Thankyou.

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I think subjective questions in this course has helped me in understanding the concepts clearly. It actually erase any assumption and concretize my understanding. This course has covered wide range of concepts including effective communication, role of stakeholders, structural thinking and also spreadsheet basics.

Everything was perfect but some questions on the practice and graded quizzes were tricky. The answers conflicted from the point of view side so it might need a better explanation for the right answer.

This can apply to both course #1 & #2. But they're both incredibly basic (I missed the cutoff to skip by 1 point) and that made it a real slog to get through. The readings are a bit lacking and the connection between Coursera and Qwiklabs is very hit or miss.

This is the most boring course I ever taken. Weeks wasted for learning a couple of basic Excel tricks. Filled with corporate jargon and 0 useful lessons. A waste of time.

It was a great learning curve for me giving the professionalism of the different tutors who did justice to this course. I couldn't have it any better with any learning institution.

Coursera, you rock!

Everything is explained well and in simple terms. Special thanks to the instructor for making the course lively, with interesting examples. Her enthusiasm is contagious.

Content that can easily be cut down to two weeks. Some stories are so blatantly advertisement-natured.

This can be boring for someone with hands on background experience.

Not at all insightful

Course is too easy

The instructor had a LOT of saliva clicks. It's really friggin annoying because once you hear them -- that's all you can focus on. Come on Google -- there are techniques to cut down on mouth clicks and saliva clicks. How did you miss that one -- just Google it!!

Now for the content. First - are you serious about teaching spreadsheets? Anyone who is doing a certificate for data analytics knows the basics of a spreadsheet. If they don't -- then link them to a course. The rest of the content could have been condensed into one medium PowerPoint presentation. Seriously, when are we getting to the actual content? This is all fluff. This is supposed to be a certificate about data analytics and the first two courses spent about 80% of the time focusing on "data analytics is great" and everything else surroundating data analytics. This is why I think these so-called professional certificates are a bit of a waste. If i took a college class in data analytics, I wouldn't have to wade through a shitload of fluff. I'd actually get some real content. Kinda regretting this whole thing...

Quite a disappointing and lackluster course, and the title is misleading. Only a small part focuses on asking question and even that part was one-dimensional and biased. Instead of showing different types of questions and angles one dataset can be looked at, we are getting cliche expressions like "data is everywhere". Different types of problems weren't properly defined, just illustrated with some random examples. How and if they apply to other industries is hard to say, because we don't even know what they are. This is a real quote from the course: "Categorizing things involves assigning items to categories. Identifying themes takes those categories a step further by grouping them into broader themes."

Suddenly, probably because they needed to fill the course with content, we move dfrom questions to spreadsheets. Even this part was a mix of basic functions like SUM with more complex IFERROR. I absolutely have no idea how did the creators define the target group. As a cherry on top, the QWIKLABS don't work. Bad job, Google,

I did not like having to wait 24 hours to re-take the quiz I clearly failed 3 times in a row. I had 24 hours to feel anxious, stressed, and felt my confidence levels plummet. It would be great to have the option to have an abbreviated pause after failing the quiz 3 times. Maybe if the student views all the videos and materials for the incorrect questions, they then are given access to another round of tries. I literally feel so overwhelmed and anxious now that my mometum was interrupted and I couldn't utilize the time block I reserved to do my classes today because I was locked out. Lastly, the questions on the quizzes didnt feel as clear as the precious 1 and 2 classes.

Somewhat in awe that this course is so bad. The Google Data Certificate programe feels like it was made for 5th or 6th graders. It's completely preoccupied with basic vocab words. Examples and descriptions are incredibly vague and provide little insight. The pace is agonizingly slow. Videos and slides are underwhelming and are basically just a 'vlog' with no visualizations. I switched to the John Hopkin's Data Science course and after a week am already introduced to R. For comparison, the JH course feels like a Freshman college course (you just have to get past the robot voice).

As I aim to finish the whole 8-part course, I already regret all the times wasted on watching talking head videos of Google employees sharing their stories from meetings and promoting Google Ads, compared to later parts where people with actual skill share this skill (such as in Analyze Data to Answer Questions). I had to spend hours and hours chewing through of filling, including some total nonsense stuff as how to organize meetings and who to email, instead of learning SQL functions or real BI.

A huge waste of time. This is a part of Google certificate for data analysis so I would expect working with data but no. I really don't get where all the 5-stars rating are coming from because this course is about nothing.

Too basic and of little of value to your time

This course had a lot of great real-life examples which helped see actual applications of the concepts in this course - excellent intro to Excel formulas and functions, including errors and fixes!

I also loved the SMART framework for questions! In the past I have used the SMART framework for goals and it makes a lot of sense to use it for questions too.

The section on stakeholders provided additional insight and good advice (e.g., do not be afraid to say no, focus on the objective) although the course challenge questions on the primary vs. secondary stakeholders were a bit confusing. I also found the advice on teamwork, meetings and conflict resolution very useful.

Having the information broken into smaller chunks (e.g., 5-minute videos) was very helpful. The periodic short quizzes and flashcard exercises were very useful and helped the knowledge sink in.

Overall, very enjoyable and informative course!

The instructor was natural and enthusiastic, like most Google instructors. I think for the information presented, she was fine. As for the content of the course, I know that there was important information presented; however, it seemed like they didn't have enough content for this course, so they introduced a lot of other topics. They are important. I just think that most people are looking forward to learning specific skills with spreadsheets and databases and less soft skills. Like I said, though, the soft skills are important to. In sum, this is still just an introductory course and will probably be quite easy for most people.

After getting midway through the course that immediately follows this one, I decided to revise upwards my rating of the "Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions" course. Being an 'analytical' type, I found the course very focused on soft skills and quite difficult to absorb. However, the analytical pace does pick up and I can now better appreciate the value of this course.

Challenging at times because it introduced new concepts and explored others in more depth, this course has helped me push myself in areas I would never have dreamt of trying before! I particularly appreciated the fact that the concepts could be applied and used in the real world.