Data Analytics Course
Harness Excel, SQL, and Power BI to drive powerful analysis and insights. Build confidence and credibility to apply this versatile skill set to countless jobs.
Demand for Tableau skills has increased 1,103% in five years. Across industries, data analysis skills command a salary premium.
Gain Vital Skills With Universal Relevance
Marketing managers who know SQL make 41% more than those who don’t, and GMs earn 29% more with data analysis skills. Hone crucial proficiency in Excel, SQL, and Tableau and make career moves across industries and roles.
Tap Into a Valuable Professional Network
Form real connections that can change the course of your career. Meet practitioners and peers who can help you succeed through our global alumni network. Graduate with an industry-recognized GA certificate, and join an exclusive community.
Let Your Employer Foot the Bill
More than 45% of our part-time students receive tuition reimbursement from their companies — you could, too. We can send you an employer sponsorship package to show your manager the advantages of learning with GA.
Learn on a Schedule Designed for Busy Professionals
Join us for 10 weeks in the evenings, or dive into in-depth study in our 1-week, accelerated course. Take part at one of our campuses or from the comfort of home — wherever you’re based — via our Remote classroom.
What you will learn
- Create charts and plots in Excel, and work with IBM Cognos Analytics to build dashboards.
- Describe the data ecosystem and Compose queries to access data in cloud databases using SQL and Python from Jupyter notebooks.
- Develop a working knowledge of Python language to analyze data using Python libraries like Pandas and Numpy, and invoke APIs and Web Services.
- Perform data analysis tasks like data mining and data wrangling using Excel spreadsheets and Jupyter Notebooks.
- Visualize data using Python libraires like Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Folium.
Program Overview
This eight-course Professional Certificate from IBM prepares you with job-ready skills for an entry level data analyst role. Position yourself competitively and power your data analyst career for a job in a thriving market or leverage foundational data skills to explore problems in an increasingly data-driven professional world. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a growth rate of 20% in the data analytics industry until 2028.
You will learn the core principles of data analysis, participate in hands-on skills-based practice, and gain the knowledge to help companies make smarter business decisions. You will work with a variety of data sources, project scenarios, and data analysis tools, including Excel, SQL, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and Cognos Analytics. These online learning tools will offer you practical experience with data manipulation and the application of analytical and data visualization techniques.
This Professional Certificate does not require any prior programming or statistical skills, and is suitable for learners with or without college degrees. A willingness to learn, basic computer literacy, comfort working with numbers, high school math, and a desire to enrich your profile with valuable skills is all you need to get started in this course.
With the IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate you will develop the confidence and portfolio to begin a career as an associate or junior data analyst by learning the essential skills that help professionals in a wide range of job functions and industries explore business problems.
“I learned and did things over the last 10 weeks I never thought I’d be able to do on my own, nor would I opt to do on my own. It truly opened my world and confirmed my love for data analytics. The course pushed me to my ‘learning’ limits, but in the best way possible.”
Investment Associate, Echo Health Ventures
Anahita Nakhjiri, GA San Francisco Graduate
Courses in this Program
Data Analytics Basics for Everyone
Analyzing Data with Excel
Data Visualization and Building Dashboards with Excel and Cognos
Python Basics for Data Science
Python for Data Science Project
SQL for Data Science
Analyzing Data with Python
Data Analytics and Visualization Capstone Project
Expert instruction
10 skill-building courses
6 months
4 hours per week
300,000FCFA 600,000FCFA
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