Exploring ​and ​Preparing ​your ​Data with BigQuery (Coursera)

This first course in this specialization is Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery. Here we will see what the common challenges faced by data analysts are and how to solve them with the big data tools on Google Cloud Platform. You’ll pick up some SQL along the way and become very familiar with using BigQuery and Cloud Dataprep to analyze and transform your datasets.

Welcome to the Coursera specialization, From Data to Insights with Google Cloud Platform brought to you by the Google Cloud team.

This course should take about one week to complete, 5-7 total hours of work. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to query and draw insight from millions of records in our BigQuery public datasets. You’ll learn how to assess the quality of your datasets and develop an automated data cleansing pipeline that will output to BigQuery. Lastly, you’ll get to practice writing and troubleshooting SQL on a real Google Analytics e-commerce dataset to drive marketing insights.

Syllabus – What you will learn from this course

WEEK 1

Welcome to From ​Data ​to ​Insights ​with ​Google ​Cloud Platform: ​Exploring ​and ​Preparing ​your ​Data

Learn the courses, content, and technologies that are part of this data analyst specialization

1 video (Total 1 min)

Module 1: Introduction ​to ​Data ​on Google ​Cloud ​Platform

Understand the core principles behind Google Cloud Platform and how to leverage them for big data analysis

4 videos (Total 28 min), 1 quiz

Module 2: ​Big ​Data ​Tools ​Overview

Learn what are the key big data tools on Google Cloud Platform that you will be using to analyze, prepare, and visualize data

12 videos (Total 98 min), 2 quizzes

Module 3: ​Exploring ​your ​Data ​with SQL

Learn how to query your data with the basics of SQL (Structured Query Language) and practice writing queries in BigQuery

13 videos (Total 77 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Module 4: ​Google ​BigQuery ​Pricing

Understand how pricing works in BigQuery and how you can best optimize your queries

6 videos (Total 19 min), 1 quiz

Module 5: ​Cleaning ​and ​Transforming your ​Data

Understand the importance of creating high quality datasets and learn the tools that will help you transform your data

10 videos (Total 66 min), 2 quizzes