Become a Data Analytics Specialist

Get a thorough grounding in the concepts and skills needed for data analytics, including statistics, financial forecasting, data mining, predictive analytics, and meta-analysis.

• Explore the expanding applications for data analytics skills.
• Master statistics, the core skill needed in analytics work.
• Build skills in financial forecasting and data mining.

• Course 1: Data Analytics for Students
• Analytics is such a broad topic that it's hard to know where to get started. In this course designed for students, explore how to use data analytics to make informed decisions.
• Course 2: Learning Data Analytics: 1 Foundations
• This course covers foundational data analysis skills such as thinking like an analyst, gathering useful data, SQL queries, data cleaning, and more. Are you ready to be an analyst?
• Course 3: Learning Data Analytics Part 2: Extending and Applying Core Knowledge
• Learn how to provide quality data sets and accurate visualizations and explore practical skills to get the most from your data.
• Course 4: Data Analytics: Dashboards vs. Data Stories
• Learn the basic applications of two common data science and analytics tools: dashboards and data stories.
• Course 5: Data Analytics: Graph Analytics
• Learn the fundamentals of graph analytics—an up-and-coming approach to tackling data science projects—in this concise course.
• Course 6: Statistics Foundations: The Basics
• Learn to understand your data using basics of statistics, such as defining the middle, mean, and median of your data set; measuring the standard deviation; and finding outliers.
• Course 7: Statistics Foundations: Probability
• Learn to understand your data in beginner-friendly lessons, using probability. Topics include permutations, percentiles, how to use probability trees, and much more.
• Course 8: Excel: Economic Analysis and Data Analytics
• Use big data to forecast economic trends. Find out how to perform regression analysis for economic forecasting using Microsoft Excel.
• Course 9: Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) Cert Prep: Domains 1–4
• Learn what it takes to become a Certified Analytics Professional (CAP). Explore the core data science topics covered in the first four domains of the CAP exam.
• Course 10: Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) Cert Prep: Domains 5–7
• Need a study guide for the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) exam? This course helps prepare test takers for the topics covered in exam domains 5–7.