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.

Introduction

• The growing field of analytics

1. Certified Analytics Professional (CAP)

• Introduction
• CAP history
• CAP domains
• Related certifications
• Career paths

2. Domain One: Business Problem Framing

• Business problems
• Stakeholder identification and analysis
• Collecting requirements
• Determining the feasibility
• Problem refinement

3. Domain Two: Analytics Problem Framing

• Business problems to analytics problems
• Reformulating problem statements
• Drivers and relationships to outputs
• Assumptions
• Metrics of success
• Stakeholder agreement

4. Domain Three: Data

• Working effectively with data
• Identifying and prioritizing data needs
• Acquiring data
• Cleaning and sharing data
• Identifying relationships
• Documenting and reporting findings
• Redefining the problem statements

5. Domain Four: Methodology

• Selecting approaches
• Descriptive analysis
• Predictive analysis
• Prescriptive analysis
• Selecting software tools
• R
• Tableau
• Select model testing approaches

6. Case Studies

• The context
• Problem framing
• Data
• Visualization
• Making predictions

Conclusion

• Next steps