**Google Professional Certificate Programs: A Path to a Career in Data Science and Analytics**

For individuals looking to transition into a career in data science and analytics, Google offers several professional certificate programs that can provide a solid foundation in these fields. These programs are designed to be flexible and accessible, with no prior experience required. In this article, we will explore two of the available programs: Google Professional Certificate in Data Analytics and Google Professional Certificate in Project Management.

**Google Professional Certificate in Data Analytics**

The Google Professional Certificate in Data Analytics is a comprehensive program that provides individuals with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in data analytics. The program consists of an introductory video, success stories, and a seven-day free trial. According to prior learners, it takes approximately six months to complete the program, averaging 10 hours of study per week.

The program covers a range of topics, including data types and structures, using data to solve problems, how to analyze data, data storytelling with visualization, and using R programming to supercharge analysis. The course includes an introductory video that provides an overview of the program and its benefits. Additionally, there is a data analytics capstone project where students complete a case study.

**Benefits and Features**

The Google Professional Certificate in Data Analytics offers several benefits and features, including:

* No prior experience required

* 100% remote learning on Coursera

* Average entry-level salary for data analysts is $67,000 per year

* There are approximately 300,000 job openings in the field of data analytics

* Topics covered include data type and structures, using data to solve problems, how to analyze data, data storytelling with visualization, and using R programming to supercharge analysis

**Google Professional Certificate Program Overview**

The program is designed to be completed at your own pace, allowing individuals to balance their studies with work and other responsibilities. The program also includes access to career resources and the Google hiring consortium, which provides opportunities for students to connect with top employers.

**Frequently Asked Questions**

For those who have questions about the program, here are some answers:

* How much does the program cost? The professional certificate program offered from Google is going to be costing you about $39 per month.

* Is financial assistance available? Yes, if you need financial assistance, you can reach out to the program administrators for more information.

**Additional Programs**

In addition to the Data Analytics program, Google also offers a Professional Certificate in Project Management. For individuals interested in this field, we will explore the details of this program in a future article.

**Conclusion**

The Google Professional Certificate in Data Analytics is an excellent opportunity for individuals looking to transition into a career in data science and analytics. With no prior experience required, this program provides a flexible and accessible learning environment. By completing this program, individuals can gain the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in data analytics and unlock a wide range of job opportunities.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engoogle has just launched a series of professional certificate programs that i think you would be interested in and so without further ado we're starting right now so in this website slash grow.google.com you're going to be seeing here that the career certificates that they are offering is comprised of it support data analytics project management ux design the only certificate that is currently being launched is the it supports and so let's have a look at this one and so you can see that they have partner up with coursera and the great thing about this program is that there's no requirement on the experience that is needed to get started in this program the program is 100 remote and you could study on this via online learning and on average you'll be spending about 10 hours of study per week and based on their own statistical data most of the learners can complete the program in about half a year so currently there's about two major modules here that you can see so the first one is an introductory level and it is the i.t support certificate and so here you're going to be learning about troubleshooting and customer care networking operating systems system administration and security so this program is going to provide you skills that you need for an introductory level job in it supports and as previously mentioned there is no relevant experience required and upon completion of this introductory level certificate you can feel free to also take the advanced level certificate and it's going to be on it automation with python or if you are already familiar with some basic concepts in it you could feel free to take this course as well so some of the topics that you'll be learning includes python programming i.t automation troubleshooting and debugging testing in python and how to set up your developer environment and so let's click on here to see the full curriculum okay so so these are the courses that you're going to be taking for the introductory it support certificates and so for the it automation with python let's have a look at the curriculum okay so there's a total of six courses here and five courses here okay so let's take a closer look here on the it automation so you're going to be learning about python and in my own opinion python is a very powerful language and it is a general purpose language that will allow you to do many tasks such as performing typical functions that you would normally do when using spreadsheet programs or word processing programs as well as processing big amounts of data and as the name implies for this certificate python is also very efficient in allowing you to automate many aspects of your workflow as you will see on this youtube channel the data professor we have several projects where we show you how to use python to build data science projects to build machine learning models in order to make sense of data and so the power of python comes from its large collection of libraries whereby each library is comprises of unique functions that will help you to conquer the various tasks or workflow that you're doing you could think of python is kind of like a language that will allow you to glue together many and various workflows together in a seamless manner and so aside from python you're also going to be taking a look at how you could use python to interact with the operating system perhaps for file handling for file management creating directories organizing your files etc you could also use it to rename your files as well and then you're also going to be learning about git and github and so this is very useful for data scientists and also for software engineering projects whereby it will allow you to share your code and data as well as perform version controls as well as allow the general public or other people in your team or other interested individual to contribute to your projects and you'll be learning about troubleshooting debugging configuration management and the cloud automating real world tasks with python so based on my own experience for the first time when i used python i used it to automatically merge data from thousands of microsoft excel files and so what used to take me a couple of months to perform the aggregation of all of the data from thousands of files took me about a week to code and after that by applying the code it took me in under an hour to perform the same task that used to take several months and so i believe that you'll find python to be a very powerful language that will allow you to automate many aspects of your workflow okay so this is the google it certificates and if you click here you'll be taken to the website of coursera and so the two certificate that we have already covered is shown here on the left and right here so the introductory and the more advanced level okay so the benefits of the program they provide you interactive hands-on projects and you can study this 100 online and the great thing is that they'll provide you a professional certificate as well and they provide you opportunities to network with potential employers which will also help to spearhead your career transition or also to take you to the next step of your career so they have some introductory videos some success stories and so they have a seven-day free trial so you could check out these two by clicking on the link okay so this is the one from coursera and google and so based on prior learners of the program they were able to complete the program in about six months time averaging about 10 hours per week okay and this is the it automation let's have a look okay so if you're interested in this one you can feel free to join their course okay and so let's head over back and so for the audience of this channel who's interested in data science and data analytics you're going to be interested in the fact that google professional certificate is offering a data analytics program so let's have a look here so as you can see here the program is not yet available and so please stay tuned for that and as soon as it becomes available i'll try my best to keep you all updated and so in the meantime let's have a look so as previously mentioned for the other program no relevant experience is required it is 100 remote and you'll be studying on coursera and takes about 10 hours of study per week so google is providing you with some data that average entry level salary and data analytics is about 67 and there are about 300 000 job openings in the field of data analytics so what can you become if you have data analytics skill well this includes junior data analyst associate data analyst junior data scientist finance analyst operations analyst health care analyst business intelligence analyst marketing analyst business performance analyst data technician so you can see here that it is an entry-level data analytics certificate and some of the topics that you'll be learning about includes data type and structures using data to solve problems how to analyze data data storytelling with visualization and using r programming to supercharge your analysis okay so in this program you're going to be seeing that our programming is used and on this youtube channel i've previously created a video talking about the two popular languages that you could learn if you want to become a data scientist and so that is r and python okay so this course will take you for an introductory look at some of the essential tasks in data analytics and also data science so let's have a look at the full curriculum here so there's the foundation so they're going to talk about the data and the importance of data and also to ask questions to make data-driven decisions how you could prepare data for exploration how you can process data from dirty to clean and so this is data cleaning analyze data to answer questions share data through the art of visualization and so this is one of my favorite part is to visualize data and so you could add your imagination and your creativity in order to create useful graphs plots that also is kind of like a piece of art for telling the story of data other courses include data analysis with r programming and you'll also be doing a data analytics capstone project and so you're going to complete a case study okay and so there is an introductory video if you want to watch it you can click here and it will take you to the youtube channel of google career certificates and so you're going to be seeing here that there's a video on data analytics and so you could feel free to check that out data analytics for beginners okay and there's also videos on it support program as well okay so let's have a look here at the highlights complete the google data analytics certificate at your own pace improve your interview technique and resume with access to career resources get your foot in the door with top employers through the google hiring consortium okay so i think this is also one of the highlights of this program as well so aside from getting the knowledge you're also going to have access to the google hiring consortium so this is a great way to connect with employers okay so here are some frequently asked questions that you could read about the program let's have a look at how much does the program cost all right so it says here that the professional certificate program offered from google is going to be costing you about 39 per month and it is a subscription on coursera okay so if you need financial assistance you could feel free to reach out to them and as mentioned earlier on this program is coming soon let's head over back and there are two additional programs on project management and ux design and so if you're interested in these programs then you could feel free to have a look and so if you're finding value in this video please give it a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't already hit on the notification bell in order to be notified of the next video and as always the best way to learn data science is to do data science and please enjoy the journeygoogle has just launched a series of professional certificate programs that i think you would be interested in and so without further ado we're starting right now so in this website slash grow.google.com you're going to be seeing here that the career certificates that they are offering is comprised of it support data analytics project management ux design the only certificate that is currently being launched is the it supports and so let's have a look at this one and so you can see that they have partner up with coursera and the great thing about this program is that there's no requirement on the experience that is needed to get started in this program the program is 100 remote and you could study on this via online learning and on average you'll be spending about 10 hours of study per week and based on their own statistical data most of the learners can complete the program in about half a year so currently there's about two major modules here that you can see so the first one is an introductory level and it is the i.t support certificate and so here you're going to be learning about troubleshooting and customer care networking operating systems system administration and security so this program is going to provide you skills that you need for an introductory level job in it supports and as previously mentioned there is no relevant experience required and upon completion of this introductory level certificate you can feel free to also take the advanced level certificate and it's going to be on it automation with python or if you are already familiar with some basic concepts in it you could feel free to take this course as well so some of the topics that you'll be learning includes python programming i.t automation troubleshooting and debugging testing in python and how to set up your developer environment and so let's click on here to see the full curriculum okay so so these are the courses that you're going to be taking for the introductory it support certificates and so for the it automation with python let's have a look at the curriculum okay so there's a total of six courses here and five courses here okay so let's take a closer look here on the it automation so you're going to be learning about python and in my own opinion python is a very powerful language and it is a general purpose language that will allow you to do many tasks such as performing typical functions that you would normally do when using spreadsheet programs or word processing programs as well as processing big amounts of data and as the name implies for this certificate python is also very efficient in allowing you to automate many aspects of your workflow as you will see on this youtube channel the data professor we have several projects where we show you how to use python to build data science projects to build machine learning models in order to make sense of data and so the power of python comes from its large collection of libraries whereby each library is comprises of unique functions that will help you to conquer the various tasks or workflow that you're doing you could think of python is kind of like a language that will allow you to glue together many and various workflows together in a seamless manner and so aside from python you're also going to be taking a look at how you could use python to interact with the operating system perhaps for file handling for file management creating directories organizing your files etc you could also use it to rename your files as well and then you're also going to be learning about git and github and so this is very useful for data scientists and also for software engineering projects whereby it will allow you to share your code and data as well as perform version controls as well as allow the general public or other people in your team or other interested individual to contribute to your projects and you'll be learning about troubleshooting debugging configuration management and the cloud automating real world tasks with python so based on my own experience for the first time when i used python i used it to automatically merge data from thousands of microsoft excel files and so what used to take me a couple of months to perform the aggregation of all of the data from thousands of files took me about a week to code and after that by applying the code it took me in under an hour to perform the same task that used to take several months and so i believe that you'll find python to be a very powerful language that will allow you to automate many aspects of your workflow okay so this is the google it certificates and if you click here you'll be taken to the website of coursera and so the two certificate that we have already covered is shown here on the left and right here so the introductory and the more advanced level okay so the benefits of the program they provide you interactive hands-on projects and you can study this 100 online and the great thing is that they'll provide you a professional certificate as well and they provide you opportunities to network with potential employers which will also help to spearhead your career transition or also to take you to the next step of your career so they have some introductory videos some success stories and so they have a seven-day free trial so you could check out these two by clicking on the link okay so this is the one from coursera and google and so based on prior learners of the program they were able to complete the program in about six months time averaging about 10 hours per week okay and this is the it automation let's have a look okay so if you're interested in this one you can feel free to join their course okay and so let's head over back and so for the audience of this channel who's interested in data science and data analytics you're going to be interested in the fact that google professional certificate is offering a data analytics program so let's have a look here so as you can see here the program is not yet available and so please stay tuned for that and as soon as it becomes available i'll try my best to keep you all updated and so in the meantime let's have a look so as previously mentioned for the other program no relevant experience is required it is 100 remote and you'll be studying on coursera and takes about 10 hours of study per week so google is providing you with some data that average entry level salary and data analytics is about 67 and there are about 300 000 job openings in the field of data analytics so what can you become if you have data analytics skill well this includes junior data analyst associate data analyst junior data scientist finance analyst operations analyst health care analyst business intelligence analyst marketing analyst business performance analyst data technician so you can see here that it is an entry-level data analytics certificate and some of the topics that you'll be learning about includes data type and structures using data to solve problems how to analyze data data storytelling with visualization and using r programming to supercharge your analysis okay so in this program you're going to be seeing that our programming is used and on this youtube channel i've previously created a video talking about the two popular languages that you could learn if you want to become a data scientist and so that is r and python okay so this course will take you for an introductory look at some of the essential tasks in data analytics and also data science so let's have a look at the full curriculum here so there's the foundation so they're going to talk about the data and the importance of data and also to ask questions to make data-driven decisions how you could prepare data for exploration how you can process data from dirty to clean and so this is data cleaning analyze data to answer questions share data through the art of visualization and so this is one of my favorite part is to visualize data and so you could add your imagination and your creativity in order to create useful graphs plots that also is kind of like a piece of art for telling the story of data other courses include data analysis with r programming and you'll also be doing a data analytics capstone project and so you're going to complete a case study okay and so there is an introductory video if you want to watch it you can click here and it will take you to the youtube channel of google career certificates and so you're going to be seeing here that there's a video on data analytics and so you could feel free to check that out data analytics for beginners okay and there's also videos on it support program as well okay so let's have a look here at the highlights complete the google data analytics certificate at your own pace improve your interview technique and resume with access to career resources get your foot in the door with top employers through the google hiring consortium okay so i think this is also one of the highlights of this program as well so aside from getting the knowledge you're also going to have access to the google hiring consortium so this is a great way to connect with employers okay so here are some frequently asked questions that you could read about the program let's have a look at how much does the program cost all right so it says here that the professional certificate program offered from google is going to be costing you about 39 per month and it is a subscription on coursera okay so if you need financial assistance you could feel free to reach out to them and as mentioned earlier on this program is coming soon let's head over back and there are two additional programs on project management and ux design and so if you're interested in these programs then you could feel free to have a look and so if you're finding value in this video please give it a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't already hit on the notification bell in order to be notified of the next video and as always the best way to learn data science is to do data science and please enjoy the journey\n"