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Data Analytics Foundations

Learn what data analytics is, how businesses use data to make decisions, and the core skills required to begin a career in data analytics. The course ends with your first small analytics project.

About 6 hours
10 lessons
Final project
Certificate of completion

Curriculum

01What is Data Analytics?What analysts actually do, the four kinds of analytics, and the steps every analysis follows.20 min
02How Businesses Use DataWhere data comes from in a company, how each team uses it, and what a KPI is.20 min
03Types of DataStructured and unstructured data, numbers and categories, and the most important question about any table - what does one row mean?25 min
04Understanding DatabasesTables, keys and relationships, why companies keep data in databases, and your first look at SQL.30 min
05Data CleaningThe problems real data arrives with, how they mislead you, and a safe way to fix them.30 min
06Data AnalysisThe handful of calculations behind most business analysis - totals, averages, shares and growth - and the traps in each.30 min
07Data VisualizationWhich chart answers which question, and the design habits that make a chart clear in five seconds.25 min
08Business IntelligenceHow BI turns one-off analysis into dashboards people use every week, and the pipeline behind them.25 min
09From Question to InsightA repeatable method for turning a vague business worry into a clear finding and a recommendation.30 min
10Your First Analytics ProjectRun the whole cycle on Kolanut's staff data, from question to recommendation, and prepare for the final project.40 min

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