Data is a group of facts that can take many different forms, such as numbers, pictures, words, videos, observations, and more. Data analytics is the collection, transformation, and organization of these facts to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision-making. Companies need data analysts to sort through this data to help make decisions about their products, services, or business strategies.

Data analysts make sense of data and numbers to help organizations make better business decisions. They prepare, process, analyze, and visualize data, discovering patterns and trends and answering key questions along the way. Their work empowers their wider team to make better business decisions. Organizations in industries as varied as entertainment, finance, health care, tech, and more need data analysts to help them improve their processes and launch new products.

Google Career Certificates are part of Grow with Google, an initiative that draws on Google's 20-year history of building products, platforms, and services that help people and businesses grow. Through programs like these, we aim to help everyone– those who make up today's workforce and the students who will drive the workforce of tomorrow – access the best of Google’s training and tools to grow their skills, careers, and businesses. Google had long faced an issue that many other companies also contend with: We had open IT support roles, but not enough qualified candidates to fill them. So we built and tested a training program to provide pathways to jobs in technical support at Google for people with no college degree or experience. In 2018, Google launched the IT Support Certificate so that this training could be available to everyone. Since then, thousands of people have completed the program.

Data Analytics Professional Certificate is available at https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-data-analytics to enroll for free. In this program, you’ll learn in-demand skills that will have you job-ready in less than 6 months. You will; 

• Gain an immersive understanding of the practices and processes used by a junior or associate data analyst in their day-to-day job
• Learn key analytical skills (data cleaning, analysis, & visualization) and tools (spreadsheets, SQL, R programming, Tableau) 
• Understand how to clean and organize data for analysis, and complete analysis and calculations using spreadsheets, SQL and R programming
• Learn how to visualize and present data findings in dashboards, presentations and commonly used visualization platforms

No degree or experience is required. Prepare for a new career in the high-growth field of data analytics, no experience or degree required. Get professional training designed by Google and have the opportunity to connect with top employers.