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  • This is the third of seven courses in the Google Advanced Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll learn how to find the story within data and tell that story in a compelling way. You'll discover how data professionals use storytelling to better understand their data and communicate key insights to teammates and stakeholders. You'll also practice exploratory data analysis and learn how to create effective data visualizations.
  • Google employees who currently work in the field will guide you through this course by providing hands-on activities that simulate relevant tasks, sharing examples from their day-to-day work, and helping you build your data analytics skills to prepare for your career.
  • Learners who complete the seven courses in this program will have the skills needed to apply for data science and advanced data analytics jobs. This certificate assumes prior knowledge of foundational analytical principles, skills, and tools covered in the Google Data Analytics Certificate.
  • By the end of this course, you will:
  • -Use Python tools to examine raw data structure and format
  • -Select relevant Python libraries to clean raw data
  • -Demonstrate how to transform categorical data into numerical data with Python
  • -Utilize input validation skills to validate a dataset with Python
  • -Identify techniques for creating accessible data visualizations with Tableau
  • -Determine decisions about missing data and outliers
  • -Structure and organize data by manipulating date strings
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Curriculum

Find and share stories using data

Introduction to Course 3

Robb: Obstacles and achievements

Welcome to week 1

Find stories using the six exploratory data analysis practices

Benj: Data science and storytelling

Combine PACE and EDA practices

PACE with data visualizations

Wrap-up

Helpful resources and tips

Course 3 overview

Case study: Deloitte

Reference guide: The EDA process

Glossary terms from week 1

Test your knowledge: Tell stories with data

Test your knowledge: How PACE informs EDA and data visualizations

Weekly challenge 1

Explore raw data

Welcome to week 2

Yaser: Understand data to drive value

Where the data comes from

EDA using basic data functions with Python

Discover what is missing from your dataset

Date string manipulations with Python

Use structuring methods to establish order in your dataset

EDA structuring with Python

Wrap-up

Reference guide: Import datasets with Python

Reference guide: Pandas methods for the discovery of a dataset

Follow-along instructions: EDA using basic data functions with Python

Reference guide: Datetime manipulation

Follow-along instructions: Date string manipulations with Python

Reference guide: Pandas tools for structuring a dataset

Follow-along instructions: EDA structuring with Python

Glossary terms from week 2

Test your knowledge: Discovering is the beginning of an investigation

Test your knowledge: Understand data format

Test your knowledge: Create structure from raw data

Weekly challenge 2

Clean your data

Welcome to week 3

Handle missing data with Python

Work with missing data in a Python notebook

Remy: A day in the life of a data professional

Account for outliers

Identify and deal with outliers in Python

Sort numbers versus names

Label encoding in Python

The value of input validation

Input validation with Python

Wrap-up

Data deduplication with Python

Follow-along instructions: Work with missing data in a Python notebook

Protect the people behind the data

Reference guide: How to handle outliers

Other approaches to data transformation

Reference guide: Data cleaning in Python

Glossary terms from week 3

Test your knowledge: The challenge of missing or duplicate data

Test your knowledge: The ins and outs of data outliers

Test your knowledge: Changing categorical data to numerical data

Test your knowledge: Input validation

Weekly challenge 3

Data visualizations and presentations

Welcome to week 4

The visualization life cycle

Work with Tableau, Part 1

Work with Tableau, Part 2

Drew: Explore the possibilities of data

Craft compelling stories with Tableau

Present like a pro with Tableau

Wrap-up

Tableau Public overview

Follow-along instructions: Data visualizations and presentations with Tableau

Follow-along guide: Work with Tableau, Part 1

How to sign on to Tableau Public

Follow-along guide: Work with Tableau, Part 2

Activity Exemplar: Design a bar graph that tells a story in Tableau Public

Follow-along guide: Craft compelling stories with Tableau

The top five data visualization resources

Follow-along guide: Present like a pro with Tableau

Activity Exemplar: Build an interactive dashboard in Tableau Public

Glossary terms from week 4

Test your knowledge: Present a story

Activity: Design a bar graph that tells a story in Tableau Public

Activity: Build an interactive dashboard in Tableau Public

Test your knowledge: Advanced Tableau

Weekly challenge 4

Course 3 end-of-course project

Welcome to week 5

Introduction to Course 3 end-of-course portfolio project

End-of-course project wrap-up and tips for ongoing career success

Course wrap-up

Course 3 end-of-course portfolio project overview: Automatidata

Activity Exemplar: Create your Course 3 Automatidata project

Course 3 glossary

Get started on the next course

Activity: Create your Course 3 Automatidata project

Assess your Course 3 end-of-course project

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