This feels wrong. As a novice in data science, I am already finding Google's "Data Analytics" course on Coursera a waste of time -- you learn very little that is not corporate talk, or cannot learn by yourself buying an Excel book from a thrift shop. Now, I am trying "*Advanced* Data Analytics" (emphasis mine) offered by Google on Coursera, and find myself ad-libbing the first 3 modules in the first course and still get great grades. Heck, it seems even DJT can pass this course spectacularly.
I have finished a machine learning MOOC provided by a French institute. At this rate, I doubt I can get much more aside from a "Professional Certificate" after I finish all 7 courses in this Coursera track.
And the courses would possibly take months if I do all the reading and watching and AI-scored "reflection" as they are filled with Google's self-promotion, Googlers' self-congratulation, and more corporate talk.
I thank my library for providing access to this and many other courses. If not for them, I would be paying $49/m for this bulls*t and be much more pissed. I was counting on the "Professional Certificate" for a better chance in jobseeking. Now this whole Google-Coursera thing looks more and more like techbros robbing people already at a disadvantage in the name of edu for all.
2026-06-19