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This Specialization provides an introduction to data literacy knowledge and helps learners build practical skills to explore and visualize data. Using real-world applications, the Specialization starts by building a foundational understanding of data and teaches learners to prepare, explore, analyze, visualize, and communicate data. New to analyzing data? This Specialization is for you, focusing on practical understanding while avoiding complicated statistical terminology.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Data Literacy Essentials
- Course 2: Data Literacy in Practice
- Course 3: Getting Started with SAS Visual Analytics
- Course 4: Refining Data for Effective Reports using SAS Visual Analytics
Courses
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In this course, you learn how to use SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya to modify data for analysis, perform data discovery and analysis, and create interactive reports.
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In this course, you learn more about SAS Visual Analytics and the SAS Viya platform, how to access and investigate data in SAS Visual Analytics, and how to prepare data for analysis using SAS Data Studio.
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In this course, you learn practical skills to explore and visualize data. You will follow a small business owner's data-driven journey to improve company performance to gain skills to prepare data, conduct analysis, and share insights using data visualizations. By the end of this course, you will be able to prepare data and conduct exploratory analysis, investigate relationships in the data by using visualizations, and communicate findings. If you are new to analyzing data, this course is for you. The focus in this course is on practical understanding while avoiding complicated statistical terminology to help you feel supported and encouraged throughout the process. Anybody can be successful in this course regardless or background.
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In this course, you learn the foundational knowledge and skills you need to engage with data in meaningful ways. This is an introductory data literacy course, starting with the basics: what is data, what does it mean to be data literate, and why is it important in today’s world. You will build data skills by following the journeys of a concerned parent, a small business owner, and a public health expert, all of whom rely on data to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of this course, you will be able to see the utility and interrogate the reliability of data, discover meaning in data by looking for patterns and trends, use data insights to make informed decisions, communicate data insights to others, and understand how bias impacts your work with data. If you are new to analyzing data, this course is for you. The focus in this course is on practical understanding while avoiding complicated statistical terminology to help you feel supported and encouraged throughout the process. Anybody can be successful in this course regardless or background.
Taught by
Emily Pressman and Nicole Ball