Get professional quantitative data analytics training and fast track your career in a leading industry with high job growth.
In the age of analytics, transforming huge amounts of data into meaningful insights and customer value is essential to effective data-driven business practice.
Professionals who can combine foundational data wrangling and statistical analysis with more advanced use of spreadsheets and SQL can quickly move up in this growing field as a business or data analyst.
This microcredential has been created in collaboration with Tableau for professionals looking to master key statistical concepts and techniques and leverage the data analytics tools essential to modern data analysis practice.
You’ll build core quantitative data analysis skills in managing and analysing complex data sets with Excel and SQL, and learn to make business recommendations using analytical modelling, progressing from diagnostic analysis through to predictive models.
As well as enhancing your data analytics and modelling skills, this microcredential offers the latest training in using business intelligence tool, Tableau, to communicate your analysis through data visualisations and dashboards.
As data enters the mainstream, the ability to explain data insights and apply them to business problems has become the critical differentiator for professionals across almost every business sector.
LinkedIn reported analytical reasoning as the third most needed hard skill by companies in 2019 and Glassdoor listed data scientist as the leading job in the US for the third year in a row.
Plus, job postings calling for data visualisation, have grown by 540% over the last five years, and specific demands for Tableau skills by 1,165%.
This credential will support you to develop these highly valuable and marketable data storytelling skills and learn how to use Tableau to communicate insights and solve business problems.
Develop data visualisation and storytelling skills that are translatable across industries, and equip yourself with the skills to get hired in a market that’s expected to be worth $500billion by 2026.
This microcredential meets the standards set by the Common Microcredential Framework.
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This microcredential is for professionals looking to gain advanced problem solving, data analysis, and communication skills.
There are no prerequisites to enrol but it’s advised that you possess a bachelor’s degree or some prior work experience working with data, statistics, and using spreadsheets.
Data analytics, advanced mathematics or coding capabilities are not expected.
Current or future roles of learners on this microcredential may include data or business analysts, marketing managers, HR managers, product managers, strategy analysts, policy analysts, and healthcare administrators.
This microcredential will support professionals who require advanced data analytics skills in the workplace.
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You’ll have access to our online welcome area where you’ll be able to start conversations with your fellow learners and read any announcements or additional information relating to your microcredential.
Refresh your statistics skills and learn to analyse structured, unstructured, and complex data sets using Excel and SQL databases.
Learn how to solve advanced business problems with data analysis, visualisation, and communication using Tableau.
Once you have successfully completed the microcredential and passed the assessments, you’ll receive 15 UK credits at Postgraduate level from Coventry University and an electronic transcript.
Microcredentials are designed to upskill you for work in rapidly-growing industries, without the time and cost commitment of a full degree. Your microcredential can stand alone as an independent credential, and some also offer academic credit to use towards a degree.
Complete online courses led by experts over 12-16 weeks with a dedicated group of professionals.
Test your understanding with online tutor-marked assessments and exercises.
Finish your learning and pass your assessments to gain an accredited credential.
Use your microcredential as evidence of your specialised skills and progress further in your industry.
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You will have 14 days from the day the course starts to apply for a refund. You can find more information in our code of conduct.
Microcredentials are designed to fit around your life and timezone.
There may be live events as part of your studies, but these will be recorded and can be watched afterwards if you aren’t online for the live broadcast.
No, microcredentials are designed to be taken anywhere in the world. You won’t need the right to study in the country where the university offering the microcredential is based.
Learners who successfully complete this microcredential have the opportunity to apply for Advanced Entry into postgraduate courses with a 15-credit exemption of the following Coventry University degree programmes for the academic year 2020/2021:
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