AI for Data Analysis

Name: AI for Data Analysis
Rating: 4.6 (147 reviews)

Course 6/7 of Google AI Professional Certificate

Use AI as your analytical partner to transform unstructured data into clear, actionable insights and visualizations.

Created byGoogle

Last updated 7/2026

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What you'll learn

Identify success metrics by using AI to analyze business objectives and determine how to accurately measure project performance
Clean and structure messy data by writing effective prompts to reformat and standardize unstructured information.
Generate spreadsheet formulas using natural language instructions with Gemini in Google Sheets.
Create data visualizations with AI to clearly communicate insights and trends.

Course content

3 sections • 16 lectures • 33m total length

AI for data analysis2:43
Leverage AI-powered data analysis with Gemini in Sheets to unify diverse data sources, generate visual insights, and accelerate cleaning while safeguarding privacy for informed business decisions.
Prepare: Identify key metrics to inform your reporting0:38
Learn: Develop a measurement plan2:47
Develop a measurement plan by identifying key metrics, anticipating leadership questions, and exporting data from analytics tools to analyze website performance and conversion rate.
Build with AI: Measurement plan1:50

Prepare: Clean up messy data to conduct analysis1:22
Learn: Create a structured data set3:58
Turn unstructured reviews into a data table with Gemini and Google Sheets, extracting data from screenshots, creating date, text, and stars columns, and classify sentiment and category with artificial intelligence.
Build with AI: Clean data set1:55
Owen, how do you use AI for data analysis at work?0:41
Discover how to use ai for data analysis at work by treating open-text survey responses as a richer data source, alongside traditional multiple-choice data.

Prepare: Analyze spreadsheet data using everyday language1:02
Learn: Analyze data and create visualizations2:46
Analyze e-commerce data in Google Sheets with Gemini to identify top channels, compute average revenue per session by channel, and create a bar chart with a clear narrative.
Build with AI: Data analysis and visualizations2:19
Carol, how do you use AI when you're building new features?0:53
Prepare: Build a business performance simulator for faster, data-driven decision1:28
Learn: Create performance simulations6:15
Build with AI: Business performance simulator2:32
Course challenge
Claim your course completion badge0:40

Requirements

None.

Description

Are the answers you need buried in a dataset you can't decipher? In this course, you’ll learn to use AI as your analytical partner to transform unstructured data into clear, actionable insights. You’ll use Gemini to identify the right success metrics for any project and practice converting messy, raw data into structured tables. You'll use everyday language to generate powerful spreadsheet formulas and create compelling charts in Google Sheets—empowering you to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

By the end of this course, you will create:

Success metrics you can stand by: Use Gemini to define exactly what to measure for your project so you can present your results with confidence.
A structured dataset: Clean and organize messy information into a structured Google Sheets table that is ready for immediate analysis.
Data visualizations and formulas: Use natural language to generate spreadsheet functions and create charts that visualize your findings to drive evidence-based decisions.
Business performance simulator: Use Gemini Canvas to transform static data into an interactive tool, so you can "test-drive" changes and visualize their ripple effects in real time.

This course is a part of the Google AI Professional Certificate, a program that takes you beyond foundational understanding to becoming an AI-fluent professional. With this certificate, you’ll gain hands-on experience building the AI skills that employers are looking for. Designed by experts at Google, you’ll practice using AI in real workplace tasks. You’ll learn how to use AI to sharpen your strategy, boost your creativity, and streamline the repetitive parts of your day, and you’ll build a portfolio of 20+ AI projects to show off your new skills. And, to help you do your best work, you’ll gain access to Google AI Pro at no cost, giving you experience with Google’s most helpful tools.