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Excel
PROJECT Marketing ROI
Analysis

SKILLS Pivot tables,

formulas

"Excel Dashboards and Reports for

RESOURCES Dummies" by Alexander, M.,

Chandoo Excel Tutorials

GETTING Analyze marketing spend data to calculate

ROI. Use pivot tables to summarize data
STARTED and formulas to calculate ROI.
 Excel
PROJECT Supply Chain
Optimization

SKILLS Solver, data

validation

RESOURCES "Excel Data Analysis For Dummies" by

Nelson, S.,

Excel Easy Tutorials

Develop a model to optimize supply chain

GETTING operations. Use Solver to find the optimal
solution and data validation to ensure data
STARTED integrity.
 Excel
PROJECT HR Analytics -
Employee Attrition

SKILLS Pivot tables,

conditional
formatting
RESOURCES "Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies"
by Bluttman, K.,

ExcelIsFun YouTube Channel

Analyze employee data to understand

GETTING attrition rates. Use pivot tables to group
data and conditional formatting to
STARTED highlight key findings.
 Excel
PROJECT Product Pricing
Strategy

SKILLS What-if Analysis,

Data Tables

RESOURCES "Excel 2019 Power Programming with VBA"

by Walkenbach, J.,

MrExcel's Excel Tutorials

Analyze different pricing strategies and

GETTING their impact on sales and profits. Use
What-if Analysis and Data Tables to
STARTED compare different scenarios.
 Excel
PROJECT Customer Lifetime
Value Analysis

SKILLS Formulas, Pivot

Tables

RESOURCES "Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and

Business Modeling" by Winston, W.,

Excel Easy Tutorials

Analyze customer data to calculate

GETTING Customer Lifetime Value. Use formulas to
calculate CLTV and pivot tables to
STARTED summarize data.
 Excel
PROJECT Sales Forecasting

SKILLS Pivot tables,

forecasting functions

RESOURCES "Excel 2019 All-in-One For Dummies" by

Harvey, G.,

Excel Jet Tutorials

Analyze historical sales data to forecast

GETTING future sales. Use pivot tables to summarize
data and Excel's built-in forecasting
STARTED functions to predict trends.
 Excel
PROJECT Employee Scheduling

Conditional
SKILLS
formatting,
optimization
RESOURCES "Excel 2019 Bible" by Alexander, M.,

Contextures Excel Tips

Create an employee scheduling system.

GETTING Use conditional formatting to highlight
scheduling conflicts and Excel's Solver tool
STARTED to optimize shifts.
 Excel
PROJECT Financial Budget
Tracking

SKILLS Data visualization,

pivot tables,
formulas
RESOURCES "Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies"
by Bluttman, K.,

ExcelIsFun YouTube Channel

Develop a system to track personal or

GETTING business finances. Use formulas to
calculate totals and pivot tables to
STARTED summarize data.
 Excel
PROJECT Customer
Segmentation

SKILLS Pivot tables,

conditional
formatting
RESOURCES "Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and
Business Modeling" by Winston, W.,

Excel Easy Tutorials

Analyze customer data to identify distinct

GETTING customer segments. Use pivot tables to
group data and conditional formatting to
STARTED highlight key findings.
 Excel
PROJECT Inventory
Management
Conditional
SKILLS
formatting, data
validation, VLOOKUP
RESOURCES "Excel 2019: From Beginner to Advanced"
by Pichler, B.,

MrExcel's Excel Tutorials

Create an inventory management system.
GETTING Use data validation to ensure data
integrity, XLOOKUP to retrieve
STARTED information, and conditional formatting to
highlight low stock levels.
 SQL
PROJECT Customer
Segmentation

SKILLS SQL querying, data

manipulation

RESOURCES "SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself"

by Forta, B.,

W3Schools SQL Tutorial

Analyze customer data to identify distinct

GETTING customer segments. Use SQL queries to
group data based on different
STARTED characteristics.
 SQL
PROJECT E-commerce
Database Analysis

SKILLS SQL querying, joins,

aggregation

RESOURCES "Learning SQL" by Beaulieu, A.,

Khan Academy SQL Course

Analyze an e-commerce database to

GETTING extract insights about sales, customer
behavior, and product performance. Use
STARTED joins to combine data and aggregation
functions to summarize it.
 SQL
Employee
PROJECT
Performance
Tracking
SKILLS SQL querying,
window functions,
case statements
RESOURCES "SQL Cookbook" by Molinaro, A.,

Mode Analytics SQL Tutorial

Analyze an employee database to track

GETTING performance over time. Use window
functions to calculate running totals and
STARTED case statements to categorize data.
 SQL
PROJECT Real Estate Market
Analysis

SKILLS SQL querying, data

manipulation,
subqueries
RESOURCES "Head First SQL" by Beighley, L.,

SQLZoo Tutorials

Analyze a real estate database to

GETTING understand market trends. Use subqueries
to handle complex data manipulation
STARTED tasks.
 SQL
Hospital
PROJECT
Management System
Analysis
SKILLS SQL querying, data
manipulation, stored
procedures
RESOURCES "Murach's MySQL" by Joel Murach,

Coursera SQL Specialization

Analyze a hospital management system

GETTING database to extract insights about patient
data, doctor performance, and resource
STARTED allocation. Use stored procedures to
automate common tasks.
 SQL
PROJECT Movie Database
Analysis

SKILLS SQL querying, joins,

aggregation
"SQL: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to
Learn SQL Programming Step by Step" by
RESOURCES Clark, R.,

Codecademy SQL Course

Analyze a movie database to extract

GETTING insights about genres, directors, and
ratings. Use joins to combine data and
STARTED aggregation functions to summarize it.
 SQL
PROJECT Library Management
System Analysis

SKILLS SQL querying, data

manipulation, stored
procedures
RESOURCES SQLBolt Interactive SQL Tutorial

Analyze a library management system

GETTING database to extract insights about book
loans, member activity, and resource
STARTED allocation. Use stored procedures to
automate common tasks.
 SQL
PROJECT Hotel Booking
Analysis

SQL querying,
SKILLS window functions,
case statements
"SQL Cookbook: Query Solutions and
RESOURCES Techniques for All SQL Users" by Molinaro,
A.

Analyze a hotel booking database to

GETTING understand booking trends and patterns.
Use window functions to calculate running
STARTED totals and case statements to categorize
data.
 SQL
PROJECT Retail Sales Analysis

SQL querying, data

SKILLS
manipulation,
subqueries
RESOURCES "SQL for Data Analytics" by Valluru, U.,
DataCamp SQL Courses

Analyze a retail database to understand

GETTING sales trends and product performance. Use
subqueries to handle complex data
STARTED manipulation tasks.
 SQL
University
PROJECT
Management System
Analysis
SKILLS SQL querying, data
manipulation, stored
procedures
RESOURCES "Learn SQL" by Meier, U., Kaggle SQL
Course

Analyze a university management system

GETTING database to extract insights about student
performance, course popularity, and
STARTED resource allocation. Use stored procedures
to automate common tasks.
 Tableau
PROJECT Dashboard for
COVID-19 Data

Data visualization,
SKILLS
interactive
dashboards
RESOURCES "Mastering Tableau" by Brown, D., Tableau
Training Videos

Create an interactive dashboard to

GETTING visualize COVID-19 data. Use Tableau's
mapping capabilities to show geographic
STARTED trends and filters to allow for interactive
exploration.
 Tableau
PROJECT Real Estate Market
Analysis

SKILLS Data visualization,

mapping

RESOURCES "Communicating Data with Tableau" by

Ben Jones, Tableau Public Gallery

Analyze a real estate database to

GETTING understand market trends. Use Tableau's
data visualization capabilities to show
STARTED patterns in the data.
 Tableau
PROJECT Customer
Segmentation

SKILLS Data visualization,

calculated fields

RESOURCES "Tableau Your Data!" by Murray, D.,

Tableau Official Tutorials

Analyze customer data to identify distinct

GETTING customer segments. Use calculated fields
to create new metrics and Tableau's
STARTED visualization capabilities to present your
findings.
 PowerBI
PROJECT Sales Performance
Dashboard

SKILLS Data visualization,

DAX formulas

RESOURCES "Pro Power BI Desktop" by Aspin, A., Power

BI Guided Learning

Create a dashboard to track sales

GETTING performance. Use PowerBI's DAX formulas
to calculate key metrics and its
STARTED visualization capabilities to present them
effectively.
 PowerBI
PROJECT Financial Budget
Tracking

SKILLS Data visualization,

measures

RESOURCES "Supercharge Power BI" by Ferrari, A.,

Power BI Microsoft Learn

Develop a system to track personal or

GETTING business finances. Use measures to
calculate totals and PowerBI's data
STARTED visualization capabilities to summarize and
present the data.
 Tableau
PROJECT Retail Sales
Dashboard

SKILLS Data visualization,

interactive
dashboards
RESOURCES "Mastering Tableau 2019.1" by Rock, M.,
Tableau Training Videos

Create an interactive dashboard to

GETTING visualize retail sales data. Use Tableau's
mapping capabilities to show geographic
STARTED trends and filters to allow for interactive
exploration.
 Tableau
University
PROJECT
Performance
Analysis
SKILLS Data visualization,
calculated fields

RESOURCES "Communicating Data with Tableau" by

Ben Jones, Tableau Public Gallery

Analyze university data to identify

GETTING performance trends. Use calculated fields
to create new metrics and Tableau's
STARTED visualization capabilities to present your
findings.
 Tableau
PROJECT Airline Flight Data
Analysis

SKILLS Data visualization,

mapping

RESOURCES "Tableau Your Data!" by Murray, D.,

Tableau Official Tutorials

Analyze airline flight data to understand

GETTING flight patterns and delays. Use Tableau's
mapping capabilities to visualize flight
STARTED paths.
 PowerBI
PROJECT HR Analytics
Dashboard

SKILLS Data visualization,

DAX formulas

RESOURCES "Beginning Power BI: A Practical Guide to

Self-Service Data Analytics with Excel 2016
and Power BI Desktop" by Larsen, D.,
Power BI Guided Learning

Create a dashboard to track HR metrics like

GETTING employee attrition, performance, and
diversity. Use PowerBI's DAX formulas to
STARTED calculate key metrics and its visualization
capabilities to present them effectively.
 PowerBI
PROJECT Social Media
Analytics

SKILLS Data visualization,

measures
"The Definitive Guide to DAX: Business
Intelligence for Microsoft Power BI, SQL
RESOURCES Server Analysis Services, and Excel" by
Ferrari, A., Russo, M., Power BI Microsoft
Learn

Develop a system to track social media

GETTING metrics. Use measures to calculate totals
and PowerBI's data visualization
STARTED capabilities to summarize and present the
data.
 Python
PROJECT Sentiment Analysis
of Twitter Data

SKILLS Python
programming, NLP

"Natural Language Processing with Python"

RESOURCES by Bird, S., Klein, E., & Loper, E., Sentdex
Python Programming Tutorials

Analyze sentiment of tweets about a

GETTING specific topic. Use Python's tweepy library
to access Twitter data and nltk library for
STARTED sentiment analysis.
 Python
PROJECT Predictive Modeling

Python
SKILLS programming, scikit-
learn

RESOURCES "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-

Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow" by Géron, A.,
Scikit-Learn Tutorials

Use historical data to predict future

GETTING outcomes. Clean and preprocess the data
with pandas, then use scikit-learn to build
STARTED and evaluate predictive models.
 Python
Recommendation
PROJECT
Engine
Python
SKILLS programming,
Collaborative
Filtering
RESOURCES "Python for Data Analysis" by McKinney,
W., DataCamp Python Track

Build a recommendation engine for a

GETTING movie or e-commerce website. Use
collaborative filtering techniques to
STARTED provide recommendations based on
similar user behavior.
 Python
PROJECT Time Series Analysis

Python
SKILLS programming,
pandas, statsmodels

RESOURCES "Python for Finance" by Hilpisch, Y.,

Machine Learning Mastery Tutorials

Analyze time-series data like stock prices

GETTING or weather data. Use pandas for data
manipulation and statsmodels for time
STARTED series analysis.
 Python
PROJECT Image Classification

Python
SKILLS programming, Deep
Learning, Keras

RESOURCES "Deep Learning with Python" by Chollet, F.,

PyImageSearch Tutorials

Build a deep learning model to classify

GETTING images. Use Python's keras library to build,
train, and evaluate a convolutional neural
STARTED network.
 Python
PROJECT Stock Market
Analysis

Python
SKILLS
programming,
pandas, matplotlib

RESOURCES "Python for Finance: Mastering Data-

Driven Finance" by Hilpisch, Y., Machine
Learning Mastery Tutorials

Analyze stock market data to understand

GETTING market trends. Use pandas for data
manipulation and matplotlib for data
STARTED visualization.
 Python
Weather Trend
PROJECT
Forecasting
Python
SKILLS programming, scikit-
learn, statsmodels
"Python for Data Analysis" by McKinney,
RESOURCES W., DataCamp Python Track

Use historical weather data to forecast

GETTING future trends. Clean and preprocess the
data with pandas, then use scikit-learn and
STARTED statsmodels for time series forecasting.
 Python
Image Segmentation
PROJECT
for Medical Imaging

Python
SKILLS programming, Deep
Learning, Keras

RESOURCES "Deep Learning for Medical Image

Analysis" by Zhou, S. et al., PyImageSearch
Tutorials

Build a deep learning model to segment

GETTING medical images. Use Python's keras library
to build, train, and evaluate a
STARTED convolutional neural network.
 Python
PROJECT Spam Detection

Python
SKILLS programming, NLP,
scikit-learn
"Natural Language Processing with Python
RESOURCES and spaCy" by Yuli Vasiliev,
PythonProgramming.net Tutorials

GETTING Build a spam detection system for emails

or messages. Use Python's nltk and scikit-

STARTED learn libraries to preprocess text data and

build a classification model.
 Python
PROJECT Traffic Prediction
Model

Python
SKILLS
programming, scikit-
learn, pandas

RESOURCES "Python Machine Learning" by Raschka, S.,

Scikit-Learn Tutorials

Use historical traffic data to predict future

GETTING traffic patterns. Clean and preprocess the
data with pandas, then use scikit-learn to
STARTED build and evaluate predictive models.
 R
Customer
PROJECT
Segmentation

SKILLS R programming,
dplyr, ggplot2

RESOURCES "R for Data Science" by Wickham, H.,

Grolemund, G., DataCamp R Track

GETTING Analyze customer data to identify distinct

customer segments. Use dplyr for data
STARTED manipulation and ggplot2 for visualization.
 R
PROJECT Predictive Modeling

R programming,
SKILLS
caret, randomForest

"The Elements of Statistical Learning" by

RESOURCES Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., Friedman, J.,
Coursera Machine Learning with R

Use historical data to predict future

GETTING outcomes. Clean and preprocess the data
with dplyr, then use caret and
STARTED randomForest to build and evaluate
predictive models.
 R
PROJECT Time Series Analysis

R programming,
SKILLS
forecast, ggplot2

RESOURCES "Forecasting: Principles and Practice" by

Hyndman, R., Athanasopoulos, G.,
Forecasting with R

Analyze time-series data like stock prices

GETTING or weather data. Use forecast for time
series analysis and ggplot2 for
STARTED visualization.
 R
PROJECT Text Mining of News
Articles

SKILLS R programming, tm,

wordcloud

RESOURCES "Text Mining with R" by Silge, J., Robinson,

D., Tidy Text Mining with R

Analyze a collection of news articles to

GETTING extract key themes. Use the tm package for
text mining and wordcloud for
STARTED visualization.
 R
PROJECT Sentiment Analysis
of Social Media

SKILLS R programming,
tidytext, ggplot2

RESOURCES "Text Mining with R" by Silge, J., Robinson,

D., Twitter Mining with R

Analyze sentiment of social media posts

GETTING about a specific topic. Use the tidytext
package for sentiment analysis and ggplot2
STARTED for visualization.
 R
PROJECT Survival Analysis of
Patient Data

SKILLS R programming,
survival, survminer

RESOURCES "Survival Analysis in R" by David Diez,

Survival Analysis with R

Analyze patient data to estimate survival

GETTING rates. Use the survival package for survival
analysis and survminer for visualization.
STARTED
 R
PROJECT Recommender
System for Movies

R programming,
SKILLS
recommenderlab,
ggplot2
RESOURCES Recommender Systems in R

GETTING Build a recommendation system for a

movie website. Use the recommenderlab

STARTED package to build the recommender system.

 R
PROJECT Marketing Campaign
Analysis

SKILLS R programming,
dplyr, ggplot2

"Data Manipulation with R" by Spector, P.,

RESOURCES DataCamp R Track

Analyze marketing campaign data to

GETTING understand its effectiveness. Use dplyr for
data manipulation and ggplot2 for
STARTED visualization.
 R
PROJECT Fraud Detection

R programming,
SKILLS randomForest,
ggplot2

RESOURCES "Applied Predictive Modeling" by Kuhn, M.,

Johnson, K., Fraud Detection with R

Analyze transaction data to detect

GETTING fraudulent activities. Use the
randomForest package to build the
STARTED detection model and ggplot2 for
visualization.
 R
PROJECT Social Network
Analysis

SKILLS R programming,
igraph, ggraph

RESOURCES "Statistical Analysis of Network Data with

R" by Kolaczyk, E., Csárdi, G., Social
Network Analysis with R

Analyze a social network to understand the

GETTING structure and relationship patterns. Use
the igraph package for network analysis
STARTED and ggraph for visualization.
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