Data Analysis and Fundamental Statistics

Data analysis has become an essential business skill in recent years. Learn the basics, expand your knowledge of Excel, and learn how to tell stories with data in this self-paced course.

You don’t need any prior knowledge to benefit from this course - just a desire to clarify and act on your organisation’s data.

Data analytics is one of the most in-demand professions of the decade and forecasters expect the sector to grow even further.

This course will help you identify the benefits of data analysis, both to your organisation and your career. You’ll develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to gain a competitive edge at your current job or in the job market.

It’s likely you already have one of the most powerful data analysis tools on your computer, and it’s also likely that you don’t use it to its full potential.

This course will help you identify the right Excel formula to achieve your objectives in importing, cleaning, analysing, and manipulating data sets.

Data analysis employs a lot of statistics skills – even machine learning is often underpinned by fundamental statistical principles. This course will put you on firm mathematical grounding so that you can build your data analysis skills on a strong foundation.

Upon completion of this course, you’ll have a sound set of skills in basic data analytics, Excel, and statistics, and will be ready to move onto tidying data and creating databases.