Video Transcript – Your path to in-demand jobs in data analytics | Google Career Certificates

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SPEAKER 1: Data empowers businesses to make smarter decisions. Organizations of all kinds need data analysts to help them improve their processes, launch new products, and make thoughtful decisions. The need for companies to identify these opportunities and trends has led to data analyst roles becoming in demand and competitively paid. There are over 380,000 job openings in data analytics. The median salary in data analytics is over $74,000. This is why we developed the Google Data Analytics Certificate to help jumpstart your career in this growing field. What exactly is data analytics? Data analytics is the science of data. Data analysts collect, transform, and organize data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision making. Being a strong data analyst is more than just working with numbers. You get to be a detective, by asking the right questions and exploring the right leads; an explorer, by finding the best sources to answer your question effectively; and an artist, by illustrating your findings clearly with visualizations.

SPEAKER 2: Data analysts come from many different backgrounds and have all kinds of life experiences. You don’t need decades of work experience or an expensive education to get started. Many data analysts taught themselves the skills they needed to land their first job.

SPEAKER 1: In this certificate, you’ll learn key analytical skills such as data cleaning, analysis, and visualization. You’ll get confidence using a series of industry standard tools and platforms such as spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau, and R programming. So if you’re ambitious and enjoy uncovering trends, patterns, and problem solving, enroll in the Google Data Analytics Certificate at grow.google/dataanalytics.