Fundamentals of Data Visualization with Power BI

Offered By: Davidson College via edX

Course Description

Overview

Data is part of every field, but not everyone has had the opportunity to gain the skills necessary to find the data they need and use it in ways that add to their work. This program prepares learners to approach data and ask the questions they want answered by the data. Understanding the data lifecycle becomes an integral step in using analyzing, manipulating, and visualizing data in any program. Learners are first introduced to these steps using R. The second course in the program gives learners the opportunity to apply what they’ve learned using PowerBI. They are introduced to business related datasets and exercises that will help them become confident in working with data, creating data visualizations, and preparing reports and dashboards in PowerBI.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI

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Course 2: The Essentials of Data Literacy Online Course

Essentials of Data Literacy Course

Learn fundamental data skills with an online course that teaches you how to analyze, manage, and visualize data. Audit for free or obtain a certificate.

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Learn data literacy online using R programming

What is data literacy and why is it important? In this data literacy course, you will learn how to become data literate. This will be accomplished by performing data analysis, data visualization, and communicating with data, using real datasets and examples that are relevant to a variety of audiences and academic disciplines. Data is part of every field, but not everyone has had the opportunity to gain the skills necessary to find the data they need and use it in ways that add to their work. Whether you are in public health, healthcare, banking, law, education, graduate school, or a variety of other fields, there is a way to understand and make use of related data.

Earn your data literacy certificate online

This free four-week course will give you the opportunity to build and leverage your data skills for upward mobility at any stage in your career. It will take you through the six steps of the data lifecycle, using different case studies and contexts, and teach you how to analyze, manage, and communicate data, working in R to achieve basic R programming competencies. R is a statistical programming language that is a great resource to analyze data, manage data, and visualize data.

No experience is required to learn this in-demand skill. By the end of this data literacy training course, you will be able to identify key principles of data analysis, use critical thinking skills, and become proficient in building powerful visuals. If you are interested in building a career in data analytics, first learning these foundational lessons is vital.

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Taught by

Pete Benbow and Che Smith