What Is a Data Analytics Certification?
February 19, 2025
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Develop a Robust Foundation in Data Analytics. Build a job-ready data analytics skillset using industry-standard tools, including generative AI, to extract insights, make decisions, and solve real-world business problems.
Instructor: Sean Barnes
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Develop job-ready skills and prepare for a career in data analytics - no prior experience required.
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Beginner level
Develop job-ready skills and prepare for a career in data analytics - no prior experience required.
Statistics for real-world decision-making. Learn to calculate and interpret descriptive and inferential statistics to solve business problems.
Data visualization and storytelling. Create compelling visualizations that effectively communicate complex data stories to stakeholders.
Generative AI for analytics. Leverage genAI in the data analytics lifecycle, with hands-on labs and guidance on when and how to use AI assistance.
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Learn in-demand analytics skills that can transform your career. Data-informed decision-making is now an essential skill for everyone, from everyday consumer choices to business decisions at all levels. As reliance on data grows, so does the need for professionals who can analyze and interpret it effectively. The Data Analytics Professional Certificate, led by industry leader Sean Barnes, equips you with the skills to manage the entire data lifecycle, from defining problems to delivering insights.
The skills you'll gain are in high demand, and with data science roles projected to grow 36% from 2023 to 2033 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, developing these skills puts you at the forefront of a data-centric world.
Unique to this program is its integration of new AI tools into the analytics workflow. You'll learn to use large language models as a thought partner, accelerating tasks like simulation modeling, formula debugging, and data visualization. Each of the course examples comes from real-world use cases, building practical and immediately useful skills.
Whether you're a software engineer working with data pipelines, a marketer or business analyst extracting insights, or building a career in data analysis, you'll gain the foundation to excel in the data economy. This program blends core statistical methods with AI-assisted workflows, perfect for beginner data professionals or experienced practitioners looking for fresh techniques.
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Advanced statistical applications. Move beyond theory to practical implementation of correlation analysis, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing to solve real business challenges.
Effective data-driven communication: Develop the crucial skill of translating complex analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders at all levels.
Future-ready analytics skills. Gain experience in AI-augmented workflows, preparing you for the cutting edge of data analytics, using AI to help speed up and improve analysis.
In this course, you’ll learn to harness the volume & complexity of information to help businesses make better decisions. This is data analytics, and it powers insights across almost every industry, even ones you might not think of: from fashion and government, to tech, sports and healthcare.
This course is the first in a series designed to prepare you for an entry level data analyst role. You don’t need any prior experience with analytics software, programming, or even data to succeed in this course. Whether you’re looking to start a career in data analytics or level up in your current role, this course is for you. It’s designed to take you from no prior experience to leading your own end to end projects. And, if you’re already working as a data analyst or in a similar role, you’ll find new strategies and insights to continue growing in your career. Starting out, you’ll learn what data is & the many forms it can take. Then, you’ll get hands on with spreadsheets, a powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing data. You’ll explore real-world datasets throughout the video demos and the interactive labs, including hotel bookings, baby names, and home sales. Finally, you’ll learn a structured approach for data analytics projects that works across industries. Plus, throughout this course, you’ll get hands-on with large language models, which are changing the nature of work. They are not a replacement for your perspective, but they can augment your skills, serving as a thought partner for your practice. In this course, you’ll use LLMs to interpret data visualizations, run analyses, and more. Data analytics is both analytical and creative. While you will crunch numbers, and that’s fun in its own right, you’ll also craft compelling stories to inspire action. You’ll discover new things every day, work with people from all backgrounds, and see the real world impacts of your expertise.
Throughout this course, you will learn the fundamental statistical concepts, analyses, and visualizations that serve as the foundation for a career as a data analyst.
Whether you're new to statistics or looking to refresh your skills, this course will equip you with powerful techniques to extract meaningful insights from your data. By the end of this course, you will feel more confident and capable of implementing rigorous statistical analyses in your career as a data analyst! In the first module, you’ll explore the essential building blocks of statistics that enable rigorous data analysis. By the end, you’ll be able to define populations, samples, and sampling methods; characterize datasets using measures of central tendency, variability, and skewness; use correlation to understand relationships between features; and employ segmentation to reveal insights about different groups within your data. You’ll apply these concepts to real-world scenarios: analyzing movie ratings and durations over time, explaining customer behavior, and exploring healthcare outcomes. In the second module, you’ll cover key probability rules and concepts like conditional probability and independence, all with real-world examples you’ll encounter as a data analyst. Then you’ll explore probability distributions, both discrete and continuous. You'll learn about important distributions like the binomial and normal distributions, and how they model real-world phenomena. You’ll also see how you can use sample data to understand the distribution of your population, and how to answer common business questions like how common are certain outcomes or ranges of outcomes? Finally, you’ll get hands on with simulation techniques. You'll see how to generate random data following specific distributions, allowing you to model complex scenarios and inform decision-making. In modules 3 and 4, you'll learn powerful techniques to draw conclusions about populations based on sample data. This is your first foray into inferential statistics. You’ll start by constructing confidence intervals - a way to estimate population parameters like means and proportions with a measure of certainty. You'll learn how to construct and interpret these intervals for both means and proportions. You’ll also visualize how this powerful technique helps you manage the inherent uncertainty when investigating many business questions. Next, you’ll conduct hypothesis testing, a cornerstone of statistical inference that helps you determine whether an observed difference reflects random variation or a true difference. You'll discover how to formulate hypotheses, calculate test statistics, and interpret p-values to make data-driven decisions. You’ll learn tests for means and proportions, as well as how to compare two samples. Throughout the course, you’ll use large language models as a thought partner for descriptive and inferential statistics. You'll see how AI can help formulate hypotheses, interpret results, and even perform calculations and create visualizations for those statistics.
This comprehensive course guides students through the complete data analytics workflow using Python, combining programming fundamentals with advanced statistical analysis. The curriculum is structured across five interconnected modules that build upon each other, using real-world datasets to provide practical, hands-on experience.
Starting with programming fundamentals, students learn essential Python concepts while working with real datasets like public library revenue and restaurant safety inspections. The course introduces the Jupyter Notebook environment and transitions students from spreadsheet-based analysis to powerful programmatic approaches. Students master core programming concepts including variables, functions, and control flow structures. This course bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, enabling students to become proficient in using Python for comprehensive data analysis, from basic data manipulation to advanced statistical modeling and forecasting.
This course focuses on collecting and preprocessing real-world data, moving beyond the clean datasets that learners have encountered in earlier coursework. The core narrative is about handling data as it exists "in the wild" - messy, inconsistent, and coming from various sources.
The course includes three modules focusing on data from different sources: web scraping, APIs, and databases. It begins with web scraping, including how to extract data from websites using tools like Pandas and Beautiful Soup, while considering ethical implications. You’ll also learn how to clean and preprocess text data, the primary type of data you’ll encounter on the web. Module 2 introduces APIs, a method of getting real-time data from online sources. You’ll learn how to parse JSON data and authenticate your access with API keys. You’ll also explore broader data cleaning concepts, particularly around handling numerical data, including normalization and other techniques. The final module focuses on databases. You’ll learn how databases are structured, and how to access them using SQL queries. You’ll learn when to choose SQL versus Python for different data cleaning tasks. You’ll also cover the core join operations that allow you to combine database tables, which make up many interview questions. The course aims to prepare you for real-world scenarios where data rarely comes in a perfect, analysis-ready format.
In this course, you'll learn how to transform your data analysis into compelling stories that drive real business decisions. You'll move beyond just analyzing data to effectively communicating your findings in ways that resonate with different audiences.
You'll start by learning the fundamentals of data storytelling - how to craft narratives that give your data meaning and context. You'll discover how to choose the right medium for your message, whether that's a memo, presentation, or interactive dashboard, based on your audience's needs and the story you're trying to tell. Next, you'll dive into the art of presenting insights effectively. You'll explore various types of visualizations and learn when to use each one to make your data most impactful. You'll also get hands-on experience with Tableau, where you'll learn to create powerful interactive dashboards from start to finish. You'll master everything from connecting data sources to designing user-friendly interfaces that stakeholders can easily navigate. The course culminates in a capstone project where you'll put all your skills together. You'll work through a complete analysis workflow - cleaning and analyzing data with Python and SQL, creating visualizations with Seaborn, and crafting a compelling narrative around your findings. Throughout the course, you'll focus on real-world applications, learning to align your analysis with business objectives and translate technical findings into actionable insights.
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You'll have the skills to extract meaningful insights from real-world datasets, make data-driven decisions, and communicate results effectively.
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