4My Experience with Data Analytics Courses
Before learning your first new data skill, you might be wondering: How hard is it going to be? What is it going to feel like? Am I going to have to do a lot of math? Will there be things that I can't find an answer to?
I wanted to take a break from giving advice to tell you what it was like for me to learn data analytics. In this chapter I'm going to focus on taking courses and learning the fundamentals—I will talk about the learning I did while building my portfolio in Part II, and at my eventual job later on in Part IV of this book.
The Beginning
To begin with, I can say that learning Excel was the easiest skill to pick up because I already had casual experience with Excel. Python and R were tied for the most difficult—they are actually coding languages! Tableau was easier to learn than Python and R but felt the most vague. SQL was the most exciting tool to learn, but part of that was because it was the first thing I learned after Excel, and I did not go into it thinking I was going to like it.
Here is my story about learning the skills I needed to get my first job, starting with the Google Certificates course in Data Analytics.
The Google Certificates Course
My data journey started with the Google Certificates course in Data Analytics. It ...
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