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Excel, SQL, visualisation, and BI strategy — from spreadsheets to executive dashboards.
All categories · 6 courses
FreeData & Business IntelligenceA practical foundation for managers, analysts and students who need to turn data into decisions. You will learn the analyst mindset, choose KPIs, ask better questions, judge data quality, handle ethics and privacy, read analytics maturity and brief stakeholders. Ten lessons with worked examples and a mini-project take about 12 hours.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeData & Business IntelligenceA practical course for analysts, team leads and managers who must turn reporting into a business capability. You will learn to define a BI strategy, shape data culture, choose self-service versus centralised models, build a roadmap, judge analytics value, run a centre of excellence, govern master data and lead adoption. Ten lessons with worked examples take about 12 hours.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeData & Business IntelligenceA practical course for analysts, operations leads and managers who present numbers to other people. You will learn how to choose charts, build dashboards in Power BI and Tableau, write basic calculated metrics, lay out a page, use colour accessibly and tell a clear data story. Ten lessons with worked examples and a mini-project take about 12 hours.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeData & Business IntelligenceA practical course for analysts, managers and students who turn raw data into decisions with Excel or Google Sheets. You will write reliable formulas, look up and reshape data, build pivot tables, import with Power Query, model scenarios, audit workbooks and present charts that a non-specialist can trust. Ten lessons with worked examples take about 12 hours.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeData & Business IntelligenceThis course is for people who already use spreadsheets for reports and want to build interactive dashboards they can refresh and share. You will decide when Excel is enough, clean data, use PivotTables and Power Query, then model, measure and design a Power BI report with responsible access. Plan about twelve hours of study.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeData & Business IntelligenceA practical course for analysts, operations managers and students who need to answer questions from relational data. You will write SELECT queries, filter and sort rows, join tables, aggregate, use window functions and common table expressions, and keep queries readable and safe on shared databases. Ten lessons with worked examples take about 12 hours. No prior programming is required; comfort with spreadsheets helps.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
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