Data Analytics Essentials

The first module of this data analytics course for beginners will cover the basics of Microsoft Excel. Students will learn data analysis essentials using Excel to create and format spreadsheets, along with CSV, tables, formulae, sorting, filtering, and much more. 

• Why Excel? What are the advantages of Excel? 

• CSV File Format 

• Tools, Ribbons, Commands 

• Cell Referencing 

• Tables 

• Basic Arithmetic Functions (+,-,*,/) 

This topic will make students familiar with implementing essential arithmetic functions to create more complex formulas that will unlock the power of Excel for data analysis needs. 

• Date Functions 

This topic will familiarize students with implementing date functions using different formats in Excel. 

• Sorting 

Here, students will learn how to sort data, where they can organize data in a way that makes it easier to find the information they need and to see relationships between different pieces of data 

• Filtering 

Here, students will learn how to filter data, a powerful way in data analysis where they can easily view subsets of their data by hiding the rows that don't meet their criteria. 

• IF ELSE 

The IF-ELSE function in Excel is a handy tool that allows us to perform different actions depending on whether a condition is met or not. This can be particularly useful when we have a large dataset and want to perform different analyses depending on specific criteria.

This module will cover the basic concepts of descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) and measures of dispersion (range, variance, and standard deviation).

• Seeing patterns in the data

Here, students will learn how to identify and analyze patterns in the data with the assistance of descriptive statistics.

• Sample and Population

Here, students will gain an understanding of several concepts in probability, such as sample and population.

• Central Tendency (Mean, Median, Mode)

This topic will make students familiar with measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) to help them calculate the average, find the median value of a dataset, and find the most frequent value.

• Dispersion (Range, Variance, Standard Deviation)

This topic will make students familiar with measures of dispersion (range, variance, and standard deviation), which is essential for analyzing data sets because it can give us insights into the spread of the data.

• Five point Summary

In this topic, students will understand the five-point summary in descriptive statistics.

Industry 4.0 is the term used to describe the fourth industrial revolution, and data is the lifeblood of Industry 4.0. In this module, students will explore the world of data and how data is critical for the industrial revolution.

• Introduction to Analytics Lifecycle

In this chapter, students will go through the various phases involved in the data analytics lifecycle.

• Datasources and Databases

Datasources are the information repositories that hold the data sets that analysts utilize to perform their work.

• A typical Data Pipeline

This chapter will familiarize students with the data pipeline, a series of steps to ingest, transform and analyze raw data.

• Insight generation and Recommendation

Here, students will familiarize themselves with the process of analyzing data to discover trends and patterns that can be used to generate new insights and make recommendations.

• End-to-end Business Case Study Demo

Here, students will go through a hands-on demo of an end-to-end business case study.

In this module, students will explore the process of generating insights in multiple ways using Excel, such as tables, tabs, charts, and descriptive statistics.

• Pivot Tables

This topic will make students understand pivot tables, which allow them to quickly summarize large amounts of data in a concise, easy-to-understand format.

• Sorting Data in Pivot Tables

Here, students will learn how to sort data in pivot tables, where they can sort by values, by column, by row, and by multiple columns and rows.

• Filtering Data in Pivot Tables

Here, students will learn how to filter data in pivot tables, where they can filter by date, product, customer, or any other entity.

• Analyse Tab

Here, students will learn how to work with the analyze tab in Excel, which allows them to perform various statistical analyses on their data, like calculating means, standard deviations, percentiles, etc. They can also use the tab to create charts and graphs to visualize their data.

• Exploring charts

In this topic, students will explore a variety of charts available in Excel to visualize data sets in multiple formats.

• Descriptive Statistics

This chapter will help students analyze and understand diverse data sets in Excel with the aid of descriptive statistics.

Querying data with SQL allows us to find and manipulate data in our database quickly. In this module, students will learn how to write and understand SQL queries to retrieve data from any database.

• Importing a Database

Here, students will learn the process of importing a database into MySQL.

• Introduction to RDBMS

This topic will introduce students to RDBMS, a relational database management system to create, store, update, and delete data in a relational database.

• Selecting data

When working with data stored in a MySQL database, it is often necessary to select specific data in order to work with it. Here, students will learn how to select data in a variety of ways using the SELECT statement.

• Filtering data

When working with databases, it is often necessary to filter data to return only the rows that meet specific criteria. Here, students will learn how to filter data and make their queries more specific using the WHERE clause.

Advanced querying encompasses a variety of techniques that allow a user to manipulate data in order to answer complex business questions. In this module, students will learn the process of advanced querying to extract business insights.

• Aggregating data

Students will get familiar with data aggregation in SQL, a process of combining data from multiple tables into a single table, where a calculation is performed on a set of values and returns a single value.

• Joining data

Students will familiarize themselves with combining data from two or more tables into a single table using the JOIN command.

• Window Functions

Here, students will learn how to identify values in a collection of rows and provide a single result for each row, which is called the window function.

• Order-of-Execution

Students will be introduced to the order-of-execution technique, which defines the specific order in which the clauses, expressions, and operators in a statement are evaluated.

• Extracting data to Excel to perform data analysis.

Subqueries allow one to nest queries within other queries, enabling more complex and flexible data manipulation. This module will equip participants with advanced techniques for filtering data based on conditional expressions or calculating derived values to extract and manipulate data dynamically.

Once students are done with the fundamentals of data analytics, this data analysis course for beginners will provide students with the first hands-on project on the topics learned so far.

This module will give students a comprehensive introduction to the Python programming language, covering topics like Google Colab, variables, data types, data structures, conditional statements, loops, and functions.

• Setting up Google Colab

Google Colab is a free notebook environment for writing and executing code. Students will learn how to set up and work with Google Colab in this section.

• Variables

Here, students will learn how to work with variables in Python to store values and retrieve them later.

• Data Types

Here, students will understand data types, which define the type of data that a variable can hold. There are several built-in data types in Python, including integers, floats, and strings, among others.

• Data Structures

Python's standard library provides a wide range of data structures that can be used to store and efficiently organize data. The most commonly used data structures are lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets.

• Conditional Statements

This topic will familiarize students with conditional statements that help them execute the code only if the specified condition is met.

• Loops

The concept of loops will be taught to the students in this chapter. Loops can execute a block of code continually until a specific condition is met, such as computing the sum of two integers or displaying multiplication or other tables, among other things.

• Functions

This chapter will help students understand and use Functions using Python programming so that they may reuse code.

Exploratory Data Analysis, also known as EDA, uses visual techniques to help us find patterns and insights frequently inside specific data. This module will explain EDA using Python in-depth.

• Data Sanity Checks

This topic will make students understand the significance of performing sanity checks to ensure that the data is clean and ready for analysis while working with data.

• Univariate Analysis

The students in this topic will gain an understanding of how to perform statistical comparisons using univariate analysis.

• Bivariate Analysis

The students in this topic will gain an understanding of how to perform statistical comparisons using bivariate analysis.

• Missing Value Treatment

This topic will familiarize students with the number of ways to deal with missing values when performing exploratory data analysis.

• Outlier Detection

This topic will familiarize students with the number of ways to detect outliers that can help identify problems and patterns in data for further analysis.

Once students are done with the data analysis essentials, this data analyst course for beginners will provide students with the second hands-on project on the topics learned so far.

This comprehensive guide will cover everything students need to know about storyboarding with Tableau, from the basics to advanced tips and tricks.

• Tableau Public Installation

Tableau Public is a free data visualization software that can be installed on any computer to create interactive visualizations of data. Here, students will explore the process of installing Tableau Public on their systems.

• Dimensions & Measures

In Tableau, dimensions are the qualitative data elements in your data set, while measures are the quantitative data elements. In this topic, we will discuss how to use both dimensions and measures in Tableau to perform various data analysis tasks.

• Data Types

This topic will cover the implementation of several data types available in Tableau, such as string, date, time, numerical, boolean, geographic, and clusters.

• Choosing-charts w/ SHOW ME

This topic will teach students to use the "SHOW ME" tool, which provides a quick way to create various charts based on their selected data.

• Calculations

Calculations in Tableau are an essential part of data analysis. Creating calculated fields allows us to analyze data in ways that would not be possible with the raw data alone. This topic will show us how to create and use calculated fields in Tableau.

• Dates and Date Functions

Here, students will learn about dates and date functions, which allow users to create visual representations of data over time, track changes in data over time, and identify trends.

• Filtering

Filtering data in Tableau is a way of isolating data points within a larger dataset that meet the specific criteria you define. There are a few different ways to filter data in Tableau, which we will discuss in this topic.

• Dashboarding-101

This topic covers everything from the basics of setting up your Tableau dashboard to more advanced topics like creating custom visualizations and using filters to manipulate your data.

Students will learn how to create stunning visualizations that tell a story and engage their audience. We'll also show students how to use Tableau's powerful features to bring their data to life.

• Parameters

Here, students will learn how to filter data using parameters in Tableau.

• Actions

Here, students will learn how to work with an action, an interactive element that can be used to filter and highlight data on a dashboard.

• Sorting

This topic will familiarize students with a way to organize their data in a specific order with the aid of sorting.

• Special Charts

In this topic, we'll explore some of the special charts that Tableau can create to communicate information effectively.

• What-if-analysis

What-if-analysis in Tableau is the process of exploring data to find answers to questions you didn't know you had. Students will learn about this powerful process to gain insights into their data and make better decisions.

• Reshaping Data

In this topic, we'll show students how to reshape data in Tableau and how to use the various features and tools available to make the process as easy and efficient as possible.

• Level-of-detail

In this topic, we will learn about the level-of-detail in Tableau. Level-of-detail allows us to control the level of detail that is displayed in our charts and graphs.

Once students are done with all the fundamentals of data analytics, this data analytics essentials program will provide students with the third hands-on project on the topics learned so far.

• Overview of ChatGPT and OpenAI
• Timeline of NLP and Generative AI
• Frameworks for understanding ChatGPT and Generative AI
• Implications for work, business, and education
• Output modalities and limitations
• Business roles to leverage ChatGPT
• Prompt engineering for fine-tuning outputs
• Practical demonstration and bonus section on RLHF