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Data Analytics for Business: Basic Analysis and Statistics 

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Data Analytics for Business: Basic Analysis and Statistics
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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

Data Analytics for Business: Basic Analysis and Statistics
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Highlights

  • Duration 4 weeks
  • Weekly study 4 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Data Analytics for Business: Basic Analysis and Statistics
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  • Data analysis has become an essential business skill in recent years. Learn the basics, expand your knowledge of Excel, and learn how to tell stories with data in this self-paced course.
  • You don't need any prior knowledge to benefit from this course - just a desire to clarify and act on your organisation's data.
  • Data analytics is one of the most in-demand professions of the decade and forecasters expect the sector to grow even further.
  • This course will help you identify the benefits of data analysis, both to your organisation and your career. You'll develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to gain a competitive edge at your current job or in the job market.
  • It's likely you already have one of the most powerful data analysis tools on your computer, and it's also likely that you don't use it to its full potential.
  • This course will help you identify the right Excel formula to achieve your objectives in importing, cleaning, analysing, and manipulating data sets.
  • Data analysis employs a lot of statistics skills - even machine learning is often underpinned by fundamental statistical principles. This course will put you on firm mathematical grounding so that you can build your data analysis skills on a strong foundation.
  • Upon completion of this course, you'll have a sound set of skills in basic data analytics, Excel, and statistics, and will be ready to move onto tidying data and creating databases.
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Data Analytics for Business: Basic Analysis and Statistics
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Introduction to the course and data analytics

Introduction to the course

Introduction to data analytics

Weekly Wrap-up

Processes and tools for data-driven decision-making

Introduction

Data-driven decision-making

Data analytics projects

Weekly Wrap-up

Introduction to fundamental statistics

Introduction

Fundamental statistics 1

Weekly Wrap-up

Application of fundamental statistical techniques

Introduction

Fundamental statistics 2

Spreadsheets for statistics

Course Wrap-up

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