Develop Your Data Analysis Skills

Overview

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Explore the practice of data analysis. Learn about the process of applying statistical and graphical techniques to data in order to discover useful information. Identify underlying principles, reasons, or facts by breaking down information or data into separate parts.

Learn the process of applying statistical data
Identify places where you can use Excel to analyze and manage your data
Inform decisions using probability and distribution curves

Syllabus

Course 1: Learning Data Analytics: 1 Foundations

This course covers foundational data analysis skills such as thinking like an analyst, gathering useful data, SQL queries, data cleaning, and more. Are you ready to be an analyst?

Course 2: Data Fluency: Exploring and Describing Data

Learn how anyone, in any industry, can speak the language of data analysis. Find out how to prepare data, explore it visually, and describe it using statistical methods.

Course 3: Statistics Foundations: The Basics

Learn to understand your data using basics of statistics, such as defining the middle, mean, and median of your data set; measuring the standard deviation; and finding outliers.

Course 4: Statistics Foundations: 2

Get practical, example-based learning of the intermediate skills associated with statistics: samples and sampling, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.

Course 5: Learning Excel: Data Analysis

Unlock the power of your organization's data. Learn how to perform data analysis in Microsoft Excel.

Course 6: Managing and Analyzing Data in Excel (Office 365/Excel 2019)

Learn easy-to-use commands, features, and functions for managing and analyzing large amounts of data in Excel 2019 and Excel for Office 365.

Course 7: Picking the Right Chart for Your Data

Discover how to think more strategically about your data. Learn how to pick the best visual display for the type of data you're working with—and your ultimate communication goals.