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Overview
Syllabus
- Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI — Step up your analytics game and learn one of the most in-demand job skills in the United States. Content rebooted in September 2023!
- 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.
Courses
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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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Power BI is a robust business analytics and visualization tool from Microsoft that helps data professionals bring their data to life and tell more meaningful stores.
This four-week course is a beginner's guide to working with data in Power BI and is perfect for professionals. You'll become confident in working with data, creating data visualizations, and preparing reports and dashboards.
Take this course if you are a:
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Beginner level data professional
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Student, Researcher, or Academic
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Marketing analyst, business and data analyst, or financial analyst
Course Requirement: (a) Windows computer (recommended) or (b) Mac computer with access to a Windows virtual machine or Boot Camp. Link to minimum requirements for installing Power BI Desktop. Email account so you can sign up for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program as part of this course. This can be a personal, work, or school email account.
Image Attribution: "Data visualization & Infographic/UNICEF reports Vol. 1" by Shangning Wang, Olga Oleszczuk is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Taught by
Pete Benbow and Che Smith