# Cohort Community: Amplitude Crash Course | Amplitude

By the end of this series, you'll have discovered important events in the taxonomy of your product and use that information to create charts for key metrics.


Source: https://amplitude.com/en-us/community/amplitude-crash-course

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# Amplitude Implementation Crash Course

We'll take you from messy or no data to core insights in three weeks. 🙌 Join any or all sessions.

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## You are not alone. Your journey includes two Amplitude mentors.

###### Alex Magnusson

Magnusson Analytica

CEO and Amplitude Magician

###### Anuj Sharma

Amplitude

Senior Solutions Architect and Amplitude Wizard

## Who is this course for

A lean, step-by-step breakdown to design, create, and analyze your core growth metrics in Amplitude. Perfect for teams just getting started or need some extra help with implementation.

**Is this you?**

You are a motivated Amplitude user who wants to quickly establish a usable analytics setup in order to begin generating insights.

**Course outcomes**

This course will help you find the fastest path to get the right data in and analyze user behavior.

- Understand what event-based analytics is and how they feed into your metrics.
- Design good metrics, and how they influence the business.
- Learn best practices to build a tracking plan and good taxonomy.
- Create meaningful charts in Amplitude.

Join one or all of the sessions, attend just the ones that will help you the most.

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## Course Content

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###### Get Down to Core Metrics, Throw Away the Rest

- Define the properties of good vs bad metrics, including industry- and user journey-specific examples
- Focus on essential user journeys and table stakes events you really need to track
- Live exercises to define key metrics
- A lot of live examples using templates to build their own metrics
- **Goal output:** revised suite of metrics for your team *(get down to 6 metrics, the other stuff doesn’t matter)*

###### Get Best Practices, Get Back on Track

- Industry-specific examples + general best practices
- Review your current setup and state of Amplitude
- Live fixes of tracking plans
- (Optional) Get an expert to review your tracking plan 1:1
- **Goal output:** get a clean tracking plan into Amplitude

###### Focus on Key Instrumentation Methods

- How to use Google Tag Manager to get data in
- Making the most of the Amplitude SDK
- Troubleshooting your current data setup and sources
- **Goal output: **start sending data to bring your core metrics to life

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