Data Literacy for Business Professionals
Master the Fundamentals for Collecting, Exploring, and Presenting Data & Lead Data-Driven Projects from Start to Finish
Description
The data revolution is coming!
Around the globe companies are relying on data to make optimal decisions and bring about better solutions for their customers.
To stay ahead of the curve and not be left behind you
need to develop data literacy
- the ability to understand data and guide a data driven analysis process. By the end of this course, you will be prepared to
lead a data driven project from start to finish.
Data literacy will enable you to stand out among peers as you are able to drive robust data-driven decision making to your organization.
With over 20 lectures and two and a half hours of video, you will be exposed to many topics including how to collect and prepare a dataset, ways to explore data visually, how to effectively summarize a dataset with millions of rows into just a few numbers, and how to present all your results effectively at the end of a project. You will also have the opportunity to practice what we learn as you go along in the course! Downloadable Excel files will be available so students can apply the concepts as they learn them and arrive at the same results I do in each lecture.
The course is broken down into the four steps you must take when working on any data analysis project:
Collecting and Preparing Data
Exploring Data Visually
Describing Data Numerically
Telling the Story
I look forward to seeing you in the course and helping you develop data literacy!
Who this course is for:
Business leaders and employees across the world who want to build the fundamental skills that will enable them to make data-driven business decisions
What you'll learn
Utilize and leverage data to improve business outcomes
Find appropriate data sources and prepare them for use in an analysis
Explore data visually to gather insights that can't be gathered with numbers alone
Effectively describe a dataset containing millions of rows with just a few numbers
Create and tell a story with data
Inspire action through data-driven results
Requirements
- You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2019 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
- No previous design experience is needed.
- No previous Adobe XD skills are needed.
Course Content
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