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Data Analysis and Visualization Foundations Specializations

Coursera, Online
Length
4 months
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4 months
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Data Analysis and Visualization Foundations Specialization

Deriving insights from data and communicating findings has become an increasingly important part of virtually every profession. This Specialization prepares you for this data-driven transformation by teaching you the core principles of data analysis and visualization and by giving you the tools and hands-on practice to communicate the results of your data discoveries effectively.

You will be introduced to the modern data ecosystem. You will learn the skills required to successfully start data analysis tasks by becoming familiar with spreadsheets like Excel. You will examine different data sets, load them into the spreadsheet, and employ techniques like summarization, sorting, filtering, & creating pivot tables.

Creating stunning visualizations is a critical part of communicating your data analysis results. You will use Excel spreadsheets to create the many different types of data visualizations such as line plots, bar charts, pie charts. You will also create advanced visualizations such as treemaps, scatter charts & map charts. You will then build interactive dashboards.

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  • Self-Paced Online
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  • English

Suitability - Who should attend?

All you need to get started is basic computer literacy, high school math, comfort working with numbers, willingness to self-learn online.

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What you will learn

  • Describe the data ecosystem, tasks a Data Analyst performs, as well as skills and tools required for successful data analysis
  • Explain basic functionality of spreadsheets and utilize Excel to perform a variety of data analysis tasks like data wrangling and data mining
  • List various types of charts and plots and create them in Excel as well as work with Cognos Analytics to generate interactive dashboards
  • Explain what Data Analytics is and the key steps in the Data Analytics process

Training Course Content

  • Introduction to Data Analytics
  • Excel Basics for Data Analysis
  • Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos
  • Assessment for Data Analysis and Visualization Foundations

Course delivery details

This course is offered through IBM Skills Network, a partner institute of Coursera.

Suggested pace of 2 hours/week

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