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Data Analysis and Exploration

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Strengthen your core data analysis skills by learning how to summarize, profile, and explore datasets in ways that support real business questions. In this course, you’ll build practical experience used in roles such as data analyst, business analyst, reporting analyst, operations analyst, and marketing analyst. You’ll work with common analysis techniques to examine distributions, summarize categorical and numeric data, compare variables, and support segmentation through filtering and exploratory visuals. This is a non-traditional, skill-based learning experience organized around real workplace tasks instead of a fixed lecture sequence. It’s designed to reflect responsibilities you may see in job descriptions, from profiling datasets and building summary tables to exploring variable relationships and helping stakeholders investigate data by segment. You can personalize your path based on what you already know, focus on the skills you need most, and skip content when it’s not necessary. The course curates high-quality lessons from expert instructors, selecting the strongest content for each skill so you can build practical, career-relevant data analysis experience. By the end, you’ll be able to use aggregation, cross-tabulation, frequency analysis, and measures of central tendency and dispersion to summarize data, apply charts and graphical methods to understand distributions and relationships, and use filtering and correlation techniques to support segmentation and exploratory analysis. This course is a strong fit if you already have basic experience with spreadsheets, data analysis, or working with tables and charts.

Syllabus

  • Start Here: Get Oriented and Check Your Skills
    • Start here to learn how this skill-based course works and find your recommended starting point. You’ll take a short, ungraded diagnostic to check your current skills, then decide whether to go directly to the graded skill assessments or review targeted learning content first.
  • Job Task 1: Summarize and Profile a Dataset
    • Use this module to build the skills for the job task Summarize and Profile a Dataset. You’ll learn how to summarize variables, compare groups, apply filters, and create useful dataset profiles. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.
  • Job Task 2: Explore Relationships and Support Segmentation
    • Use this module to build the skills for the job task Explore Relationships and Support Segmentation. You’ll learn how to apply correlation techniques, use graphical methods to explore relationships between variables, and identify patterns that can support meaningful data segments. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.
  • Wrap Up: Review Your Skill Achievement and Choose Your Next Path
    • Review the skills you practiced and demonstrated in this course, then prepare to describe them in career-relevant ways. You’ll also explore recommended skill paths that can help you continue building related job-ready skills.

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