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The Google Data Analytics Course covers essential modules including tools for decision-making, the data life cycle, and the data analysis process. Key points emphasize the structured approach to data analysis, which includes asking questions, preparing data, processing, analyzing, sharing results, and acting on insights. Important skills for data analysts include curiosity, understanding context, technical mindset, data design, and strategy, alongside analytical thinking techniques such as visualization and problem orientation.

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Google Data Analytics Course - NOTES Latest

The Google Data Analytics Course covers essential modules including tools for decision-making, the data life cycle, and the data analysis process. Key points emphasize the structured approach to data analysis, which includes asking questions, preparing data, processing, analyzing, sharing results, and acting on insights. Important skills for data analysts include curiosity, understanding context, technical mindset, data design, and strategy, alongside analytical thinking techniques such as visualization and problem orientation.

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Google Data Analytics Course – NOTES

1. Overview of Course
- Module 1 – Usage of Tools and Skills to make
decisions.
- Module 2 – Data Life Cycle and Data Analysis Process
(Intro to apps)
- Module 3 – Tools of Data Analysis (Spreadsheets,
Query Languages and Data Visualization)
- Module 4 – Tasks, Business and Jobs regarding Data
Analysis.

2. Key Points to Remember – Data Analysis Process


- Ask: business challenge, objective, or question
- Prepare: data generation, collection, storage, and
data management
- Process: data cleaning and data integrity
- Analyze: data exploration, visualization, and analysis
- Share: communicating and interpreting results
- Act: putting insights to work to solve the problem

3. Important notes
- Data Analysis is rooted in Statistics.

4. Project-based data analytics process :


- A project-based data analytics process has five simple
steps:
a) Identifying the problem
b) Designing data requirements
c) Pre-processing data
d) Performing data analysis
e) Visualising data
5. KEY SKILLS FOR DATA ANALYSISTS :
1. Curiosity
- The need to wanting to learn something.

2. Understanding context
3. Having technical mindset
- A technical mindset involves the ability to break
things down into smaller steps or pieces and work
with them in an orderly and logical way
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4. Data design
- Data design is how you organise information.

5. Data strategy
- Data strategy is the management of the people,
processes, and tools used in data analysis.

Analytical Thinking
- Identifying and defining a problem and then solving it
using the data organized, in a step-by-step manner.
- 5 Key Aspects of Analytical thinking :’
a) Visualization – Graphical representation of
information (Graphs, Maps, Charts).
b) Strategy – See what you want to Achieve, Helps with
focus.
c) Problem-Orientation – Identify, Describe and Solve.
E.g – Gain insight through customer experience.
d) Correlation – Correlation does not mean
Causation
e) Big-Picture and Detail-Oriented Thinking. – Look at
the problem from all perspectives
- Be a Versatile Thinker – Think from all perspectives
- ASK WHY 5 Times? – To identify the Root Cause
(You get the answer to the problem at around the
5th Why)
- Gap Analysis – Examine the gaps in the data.
Understanding where you are now and where you want to
be

The more you learn about the power of Data,


the more curious you’re likely to become.

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