Learn the key skills to become a Data Analyst or Business Analyst, including data analysis, visualization, and statistical techniques. This hands-on course focuses on practical experience through real-world projects, preparing you for a career in data analytics.
Overview
Syllabus
- Excel for Data Analytics
- Learn fundamental database and statistical functions
- Use Pivot Tables and lookup functions (including VLOOKUP)
- Create simple macros to speed up your workflow
- Data Analytics Foundations
- Fundamentals of data analytics and statistics
- How to use data for forecasting & decision-making
- How businesses use data analytics in their processes
- Python for Data Science Bootcamp
- Handle different types of data, such as integers, floats, and strings
- Control the flow of your programs with conditional statements, loops, and functions
- Reuse and simplify code with object-oriented programming
- Analyze tabular data with Numpy and Pandas
- Create graphs and visualizations with Matplotlib
- Make predictions with linear regression, using scikit-learn
- SQL Bootcamp
- Explore information stored in a database (tables, columns, rows, etc.) using the graphical interface of DBeaver (a popular free database app)
- Write SQL queries to retrieve data from tables in a database
- Combine information from multiple tables with JOIN statements
- Filter data, group it, and sort it to extract the specific info you need
- Advanced techniques like Subqueries, String Functions, and IF‑Else logic with CASE
- How to use Views and Functions with parameters instead of directly querying tables
- Python for Automation
- Scrape (extract) text and images from websites
- Schedule Python scripts to run automatically
- Automate browser interactions, reporting, and messaging
- Python Data Visualization & Interactive Dashboards
- Plan & present a data story
- Gather and manipulate data from different sources
- Find data stories through exploratory data analysisÂ
- Manipulate data with NumPy and Pandas.
- Use advanced Python visualization libraries Plotly and Dash
- Build a dashboard
- Apply the rules of effective dashboard design to create professional data science solutions
- Go live with your project & deploy the dashboard on a live server
- Python Machine Learning Bootcamp
- How to clean and balance your data using the Pandas library
- Applying machine learning algorithms such as logistic regression and random forest using the scikit-learn library
- Choosing good features to use as input for your algorithms
- Properly splitting data into training, test and cross-validation sets
- Important theoretical concepts like overfitting, variance and bias
- Evaluating the performance of your machine learning models
- Tableau Bootcamp
- Create and format data visualizations
- Sort, filter, and structure your data
- Create interactive Dashboards & dynamic Stories
- Work with data mapping and custom charts
- Distribute & publish completed visualizations
Taught by
Brian McClain, Art Yudin, Mourad Kattan, and Garfield Stinvil
