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Certificate in Data Analytics

The Data Analytics unit provides theoretical foundations and hands-on experience with key analytic techniques and tools, equipping students with essential skills for high-demand roles across various sectors, and offers a Certificate of Unit Credit upon completion, with the option to pursue further qualifications.

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Mode of Study: Part-Time

Location: Online

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Course overview

Data is everywhere in the world. Without knowing how to interpret this data it would be difficult to understand its meaning or make use of the data to increase the productivity of an organisation.

What will I do?

Data analytics is a range of processes that converts data into actionable insight using a range of statistical techniques. Data analytics is a relatively new term – it is an overarching term for all decision support and problem solving techniques.

This unit will introduce the theoretical foundation of data analytics and a range of data analytic processes and techniques to provide hands-on experience for enhancing your skills.

You’ll study units such as:

Data analytic terminologies
Types of data analytics
Data Cleansing & Missing Values Treatment
Data exploration and visualisation
Outlier & Anomaly Detection
Understanding data with descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.

What’s next?

Following successful completion of this programme, you will receive a Certificate of Unit Credit (CoUC) from Pearson, our awarding body for the qualification. You can select additional short-programmes to complement this Certificate and use this towards the HNC in Digital Technologies.

Did you know?

Data analysts are in high demand across all sectors, such as finance, consulting, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, government and education. The ability to pay attention to detail, communicate well and be highly organised are essential skills for data analysts.

Is it for me?

You will develop skills such as communication literacy, critical thinking, analysis, reasoning and interpretation which are crucial for gaining employment and developing academic competence.

Moreover, you will gain hands-on experience of implementing data analytic processes and techniques using tools such as Excel including the Data Analysis Toolpak & Solver, Power-Bi & The Power Query Editor Not ready to apply yet?

Why not give us an email, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. We’ll be able to advise on whether this programme is right for you and take it from there.

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You will benefit from:

Interpretation and understanding the context of data
Rapidly analyse any data set to spot outliers an anomalies
Use pivot tables to explore data and answer questions
Predict future values based on past events and know if you can trust them
Sample Data sets to infer values for a population
Forensically manipulate and cleanse data using the Power Query Editor
Using advanced features of Excel

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