 What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today we're going to be taking a first look at the new Google Business Intelligence Professional Certificate. Now Google is just dropping certifications left and right. Last week we took a look at the Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate and this week we are looking at the Business Intelligence Professional Certificate. Now when I hear Business Intelligence I typically am thinking of a BI analyst who's doing a lot of dashboards and reporting at least that's been my experience. So it should be pretty interesting to see what Google actually has in their course as to what they want you to learn for Business Intelligence. In this video we're going to take a first look at the certification. We'll walk through each of the courses in the certification just see what they're teaching and then at the end we'll talk about timeframe, cost, and kind of my final thoughts and what I would rate this course and if I recommend it. Now before we jump onto my screen and start taking a look at the certification I want to give a huge shout out to the sponsor of this video and that is Coursera. Coursera is one of the best learning platforms out there where you can learn almost anything you need to know about data analytics. I've personally been learning on their platform for over five years even before I started my YouTube channel so I know that they're a really great platform. If you want to check them out as well as check out this certification that we're looking at today I will leave links in the description. Huge shout out to Coursera for sponsoring this video. Now without further ado let's take a first look at the certification. All right so this is the landing page of the Google Business Intelligence Professional Certificate. It says learn in-demand skills like data modeling, data visualization, and dashboarding and reporting in less than two months so that already kind of confirms my suspicions. This is a lot about dashboarding and reporting but let's scroll on down and let's take a look at the courses. So looks like they have kind of a new user interface here but let's take a look really quickly. So the first one is foundations of business intelligence then we have the path to insights data models and pipelines that one should be really interesting and then we have decisions decisions dashboards and reports. As you can see there's only three courses that are part of this certification that is much shorter even half as short as some of their other certifications but there's still a lot of content here there's 24 hours 23 hours and 27 hours of content in each course so let's go ahead and take a look at each individual course and see what you're going to learn. So let's take a look at the first course which is foundations of business intelligence. This first course is very introductory just what is business intelligence in general how does it work what will you use it for it's going to also talk about how bi analysts can work with other teams like data engineers and then it's going to go just a little bit into the technical side where it talks about identifying and creating metrics again a super introductory course kind of geared towards people who don't really know what business intelligence is and just kind of catching them up to speed. Now let's look at course number two the path to insights data models and pipelines. Now in this course they're going to start getting a lot more technical where they start talking about data marts data modeling and databases it's also going to talk about the ETL and ELT process optimizing pipelines data schema validation and business rules and performance testing at the very end there is a small project as well but as a whole it looks like it goes a lot more into the technical aspects of business intelligence. Now let's take a look at the third course which is decisions decisions dashboards and reports now the first two courses were basically just an introduction and technical theory but now you're going to be actually applying it so now you're going to be learning how to build dashboards and reports in Tableau in this course you're going to learn how to create a dashboard how to pick different visualizations for different data you'll also learn how to create visualizations based off of what a stakeholder is requesting and there's lots of little examples and little mini projects is what I'll call them along the way to learn how to do that and then at the very end you're going to have your capstone project which will be the final project throughout the entire course in this final project looks like it's actually two final projects in the first project you're pretending that you're working with a cyclist bike share company and you're working with New York in order to provide shared bikes they want you to create a business plan for the next year and they want you to create these tables in Tableau the next project is for google fiber and you're basically pretending that you're interviewing for a business intelligence position at the google fiber call center as part of this interview process they want you to create a dashboard that explores the trends in repeat calls and so then at the bottom they just kind of tell you what they want and you're basically going to be building this out in Tableau again all right so now that we've looked at all the courses let's talk about time frame the cost and then my final thoughts the time frame that they give to complete the certification is two months I think that's fairly accurate although you could do it a little faster if you really hustle but there's about 75 hours of content in this certification so that is quite a bit to get through in just one month but I definitely think it should be done in under two months the cost is $39 per month so if it does take you those two months it'll cost you right about $80 for the entire certification now lastly let's talk about my overall thoughts of the certification overall I think it covered a lot of really good topics a lot of things that I was hoping to see in here when I first saw the certification this course is also definitely geared towards beginners because it's really introductory at the beginning so you're really just getting an introduction of what is business intelligence how do they work what do they do and then in the second course it gets into more of the technical things one thing I will say that I did not like is that I don't think they went hands-on enough they did a lot of the technical theory what do they do how does it work they only had one course for Tableau and I just didn't get a sense that it went really in depth as other certifications and courses that they have on Coursera I myself learned by doing and building projects and they do try to do that in the third course so they have little mini projects as well as the two final projects at the end I wish there was an entire fourth course where they went really in depth into how to build all these dashboards and reports and all these things in Tableau but you definitely get the introductory of how to build in Tableau it's just not as in depth as I was hoping but if you're someone who learns by reading and watching videos this is going to be really good for you if you're someone who learns by doing a lot of hands-on projects you'll get that in the third course you just won't get as much hands-on experience in the first or second course overall my initial rating of this certification is a seven out of ten I really do think all the content that they created for this business intelligence certification is really relevant and really good content and of course it's Google so it has really good production value and a lot of the materials are very good as well I just would have loved to see more hands-on projects and maybe going a little bit more in depth into the actual Tableau side but they still did a pretty good job and so again seven out of ten is not bad at all I think if you are just starting out in business intelligence and you want to learn about dashboards and reports there's a lot of good theory in this course this is definitely an introductory or a beginner's level course to me it doesn't go into more of the intermediate and advanced concepts but if you're just looking to kind of dip your toe in the water learn more about it learn the basics of Tableau this is a pretty good certification to start with so that is my initial review of the Google Business Intelligence Professional Certificate thank you guys so much for watching I really appreciate it if you liked this video be sure to like and subscribe below and I'll see you in the next video