Curriculum

cheat sheet
Discover the data skills your team
needs to be successful

Gain an overview of the different roles within

your organization and the trainings you can
recommend tailored to their data skill level
Data roles overview
Use this page to compare common data roles. Determine which

roles are applicable to your organization, then click the links to see
which technologies and skills your staff need to learn.

Data consumers
need the skills to be able to make data-driven decisions, or have an informed conversation with
a data professional.

Business analysts
are your bridge between using data to calculate things and applying the results to make money.

Data analysts
are focused on crunching the numbers, and need to know how to display and present findings
from your calculations.

Data scientists
make discoveries, create insights from data and communicate these insights and discoveries to
non-technical stakeholders.

Machine learning scientists

help computers learn without being explicitly programmed so that you can make predictions
from your data.

Statisticians
provide the intellectual rigor behind your analyses, allowing you to avoid bad decisions from
misunderstanding results.

Programmers
automate your business processes using data, improving productivity by reducing the repetitive
tasks your team has to perform.

Data engineers
get the right data to the right people whenever they need it. They are responsible for collecting,
cleaning, and cataloging data.
Data consumers
Data consumers need the skills to be able to make data-driven decisions,
or have an informed conversation with a data professional.

THEORY

Commonly uses the following technology and tools

Theory:
Spreadsheets:
Business Intelligence:

Non-coding data skills Google Sheets, Excel Tableau, Power BI

DATA SKILLS: BEGINNER

• Understands what data scientists, machine learning scientists, and data engineers do.

• Knows which questions can (and can't) be answered with data.

• Interpret the results of data projects, including calculations and visualizations.

DATA SKILLS: INTERMEDIATE

• Is able to calculate descriptive statistics.

• Can draw common data visualizations.

• Understands the business applications of data.

DATA SKILLS: ADVANCED

• Has a strong grasp of the fundamentals of business intelligence

Recommended data skills learning path(s)

Data Literacy Fundamentals Data Skills For Business

10 hours 5 Courses 20 hours 7 Courses
Business analysts
Business analysts tie data insights to actionable results that increase
business profitability or efficiency, often using BI tools. They have deep
knowledge of the business domain.

THEORY

Commonly uses the following technology and tools

Spreadsheets:
Business Intelligence:
SQL: PostgreSQL,

Google Sheets, Excel Tableau, Power BI SQL Server, Oracle SQL

DATA SKILLS: BEGINNER

• Is able to calculate descriptive statistics.

• Can draw common data visualizations.

• Understands the business applications of data.

DATA SKILLS: INTERMEDIATE

• Has a deep knowledge of the business domain.

• Is able to report and communicate using data.

DATA SKILLS: ADVANCED

• Can create dashboards.

• Organizes data to solve business questions.

Recommended data skills learning path(s)

Spreadsheets Fundamentals Tableau Fundamentals

15 hours 4 Courses 24 hours 5 Courses
Data analysts
Data analysts sit between business intelligence and data science, using a
combination of coding and non-coding tools to analyze data and report insights
from their analysis to business stakeholders.

Commonly uses the following technology and tools

Programming languages:
Business Intelligence:
Spreadsheets:
SQL: PostgreSQL,

Python, R Tableau, Power BI Google Sheets, Excel SQL Server, Oracle SQL

DATA SKILLS: BEGINNER

• Is able to calculate descriptive statistics.

• Can draw common data visualizations.

• Understands the business applications of data.

DATA SKILLS: INTERMEDIATE

• Perform the data analysis workflows, including:

• Importing, manipulating, cleaning, calculating, and reporting on business data.

• Has a strong grasp of the fundamentals of business intelligence.

DATA SKILLS: ADVANCED

• Can create dashboards.

• Organizes data to solve business questions.

Recommended data skills learning path(s)

Data Analyst with Data Analyst with R Data Analyst with

Python SQL
66 hours 17 Courses 77 hours 19 Courses 41 hours 10 Courses
Data scientists
Data scientists make discoveries, create insights from data and
communicate these insights and discoveries to non-technical
stakeholders.

Commonly uses the following technology and tools

Programming languages:
SQL: PostgreSQL,
Big data tools:

Python, R SQL Server, Oracle SQL Airflow, Spark

DATA SKILLS: BEGINNER

• Perform the data analysis workflows, including:

• Importing, manipulating, cleaning, calculating, and

reporting on business data.

• Understands the business applications of data.

DATA SKILLS: INTERMEDIATE

• Understands fundamental statistics, including distributions, modeling, and inference.

• Designing simple experiments such as A/B tests.

• Can create dashboards.

DATA SKILLS: ADVANCED

• Applies analyses to business applications such as finance, marketing, and healthcare.

• Understands supervised and unsupervised machine learning workflows.

• Work with non-standard data types, such as time series, text, geospatial, and images.

Recommended data skills learning path(s)

Data Scientist with Python Data Scientist with R

88 hours 23 Courses 88 hours 22 Courses
Machine learning scientists
Machine learning scientists help computers learn without

being explicitly programmed so that you can make predictions from your
data.

Commonly uses the following technology and tools

Programming languages:
SQL: PostgreSQL,

Python, R SQL Server, Oracle SQL

DATA SKILLS: BEGINNER

• Perform the data analysis workflows, including:

• Importing, manipulating, cleaning, calculating, and reporting on business data.

• Understands the business applications of data.

DATA SKILLS: INTERMEDIATE

• Performing supervised and unsupervised machine learning workflows: feature

• engineering, training models, testing goodness of fit, making predictions.

• Applies analyses to business applications such as finance, marketing, and healthcare.

DATA SKILLS: ADVANCED

• Perform deep learning workflows.

• Work with non-standard data types, such as time series, text, geospatial, and images.

Recommended data skills learning path(s)

Machine Learning Scientist Machine Learning Scientist with R

with Python
93 hours 23 Courses 108 hours 27 Courses
Statisticians
Statisticians provide the intellectual rigor behind your analyses, allowing
you to avoid bad decisions from misunderstanding results.

Commonly uses the following technology and tools

Programming languages:
SQL: PostgreSQL,
Big data tools:

Python, R SQL Server, Oracle SQL Airflow, Spark

DATA SKILLS: BEGINNER

• Perform the data analysis workflows, including:

• Importing, manipulating, cleaning, calculating, and reporting on business data.

• Understands the business applications of data.

DATA SKILLS: INTERMEDIATE

• Perform statistical modeling workflows, including feature engineering, training

• models, testing goodness of fit,and inferring significance.

• Test hypotheses and design simple experiments such as A/B tests.

DATA SKILLS: ADVANCED

• Design more complex experiments and understand Bayesian statistics.

• Understand specialist models, such as survival models, generalized additive models, mixture models,
structural equation models.

Recommended data skills learning path(s)

Statistician with R Statistics Fundamentals with Python

56 hours 14 Courses 19 hours 5 Courses
Programmers
Programmers automate your business processes using data, improving
productivity by reducing the repetitive tasks your team has to perform.

Commonly uses the following technology and tools

Programming languages:
Command line tools:

Python, R, Scala Shell, Git

DATA SKILLS: BEGINNER

• Write functions to avoid repetitive code.

• Benchmark and optimize code to improve performance.

DATA SKILLS: INTERMEDIATE

• Test code.

• Work with web APIs.

• Develop packages for sharing code.

DATA SKILLS: ADVANCED

• Develop data pipelines and work with parallel programming.

• Understanding programming paradigms, such as functional programming and object-oriented

programming.

Recommended data skills learning path(s)

Python Programmer R Programmer

59 hours 15 Courses 44 hours 11 Courses
Data engineers
Data engineers get the right data to the right people whenever they
need it. They are responsible for collecting, cleaning, and cataloging
data.

Commonly uses the following technology and tools

Programming languages:
Command line tools:
Workflow management:
Big data processing:

Python, R, Scala Shell, Git Airflow Spark, AWS Cloud

DATA SKILLS: BEGINNER

• Efficiently extract, transform, and load data.

DATA SKILLS: INTERMEDIATE

• Process data and automate data flows using the command line.

• Process data in the cloud.

DATA SKILLS: ADVANCED

• Manage and optimize SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Process big datasets.

Recommended data skills learning path(s)

Data Engineer Big Data with SQL Server for

with Python PySpark Database Admins
73 hours 19 Courses 24 hours 6 Courses 24 hours 6 Courses