1.

Introduction to Data Analytics

Total Duration: 3-4 weeks (approximately 40-50 hours)

Topics/Subtopics

 What is Data Analytics (4 hours)

 Types of Data Analytics (8 hours)
o Descriptive Analytics
o Diagnostic Analytics
o Predictive Analytics
o Prescriptive Analytics

Courses

 "Data Science for Everyone" by IBM (8 hours)

 "Introduction to Data Analytics for Business" by University of Colorado Boulder (12 hours)
 "Data Analytics Fundamentals" by UC Berkeley (15 hours)
 "Data Science A-Z™: Real-Life Data Science Exercises" (12 hours)
 "Learn Data Science with Python" (15 hours)
 "Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp with R" (20 hours)

Tools: Excel, Google Sheets, Python, SQL (20 hours practice)

YouTube Videos

 "What is Data Analytics?" (1 hour)

 "Types of Data Analytics Explained" (1 hour)
 "Data Analytics for Beginners - Full Course" (2 hours)

Books/Articles

 "Data Science for Business" by Foster Provost (8 hours)

 "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" by Ralph Kimball (10 hours)

Certifications

 Microsoft Power BI Associate Certification

 IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate

2. Building a Solid Foundation

Total Duration: 3-5 weeks (approximately 40-60 hours)

Topics/Subtopics

 Excel for Data Analysis (15 hours)

o Functions (VLOOKUP, IF, COUNTIF, etc.)
 o Pivot Tables & Charts
o Data Cleaning Techniques
 Data Reporting with Excel (10 hours)
o Create Reports, Dashboards

Courses

 "Excel Skills for Business: Essentials" by Macquarie University (8 hours)

 "Data Visualization with Excel" by PwC (12 hours)
 "Advanced Excel Formulas and Functions" (10 hours)
 "Microsoft Excel - Excel from Beginner to Advanced" (15 hours)
 "Excel for Data Analysis" (15 hours)
 "Master Excel with Power Query and Power Pivot" (20 hours)

YouTube Videos

 "Excel for Beginners - Full Course" (3 hours)

 "Excel Pivot Tables for Beginners" (2 hours)
 "Excel Functions: SUM, AVERAGE, VLOOKUP and More!" (2 hours)

Books/Articles

 "Excel 2019 Bible" by John Walkenbach (15 hours)

 "Excel Power Pivot & Power Query for Dummies" by Michael Alexander (10 hours)

Certifications

 Microsoft Data Analyst Associate Certification

3. Data Collection, Cleanup, and Analysis

Total Duration: 4-6 weeks (approximately 50-70 hours)

Topics/Subtopics

 Data Collection (8 hours)

o Databases, CSV Files, APIs, Web Scraping
 Data Cleanup (15 hours)
o Handling Missing Data
o Removing Duplicates
o Finding Outliers
o Data Transformation
 Data Analysis Techniques (20 hours)
o Descriptive Analysis
o Generating Statistics
o Dispersion (Range, Variance, Standard Deviation)
 o Central Tendency (Mean, Median, Mode, Average)
o Distribution Space (Skewness, Kurtosis, Visualizing Distributions)
o Learn to Analyze Relationships and Make Data-Driven Decisions

Courses

 "Data Science Specialization" by Johns Hopkins University (30 hours)

 "Data Collection and Cleaning with Python" by Michigan University (15 hours)
 "Data Analysis with Python" by IBM (12 hours)
 "Data Collection, Cleaning, and Visualization with Python" (20 hours)
 "Complete Data Science & Machine Learning Bootcamp with R" (25 hours)
 "Data Cleaning in Python: Learn the Best Practices" (15 hours)

Tools: Python, Pandas, Numpy, SQL, OpenRefine (20 hours practice)

YouTube Videos

 "Data Collection & Cleaning with Python - Full Tutorial" (2 hours)

 "Data Cleaning Techniques in Python" (3 hours)
 "Data Analysis with Python - Pandas Tutorial" (4 hours)

Books/Articles

 "Python for Data Analysis" by Wes McKinney (10 hours)

 "Data Science for Business" by Foster Provost (15 hours)

Certifications

 Cloudera CCA (Certified Data Analyst)

4. Data Visualization

Total Duration: 3-5 weeks (approximately 40-60 hours)

Topics/Subtopics

 Power BI (15 hours)

o Mastery from Basics to Advanced
o Relationships Cardinally
o Power Query, Model View (Power Pivot), DAX
o Visualizations (Power View/Power Map)
o Q&A

Power BI Mastery Program (Integrated Within the Above Path)

1. Power BI Fundamentals to Advanced Mastery

 o Understanding relationships and cardinality (One-to-many, Many-to-one, Many-to-
many).
o Filter Flow: How filters affect data and visuals in Power BI.
2. Power Query
o Data loading, cleaning, transformation, and merging queries.
3. Model View (Power Pivot)
o Design and manage data models.
o Create and manage relationships between tables.
4. DAX (Data Analysis Expressions)
o Calculated Columns/Measures: Custom calculations.
o Filter Context, Row Context, and Evaluation Order.
o Scalar Functions: SUM, AVERAGE, COUNTROWS, etc.
5. Formula Engines and Storage Engines
o DAX Engines: Formula Engine vs Storage Engine.
o VertiPaq Compression & Encoding.
6. DAX Formulas and Advanced Techniques
o Operators, Modifiers, and Filters: ALL, REMOVEFILTERS, CROSSFILTER.
o Table Functions, Calculated Joins, Iteration Functions (SUMX, RANKX).
7. Advanced Time Intelligence
o Time Period Shifts: Same Period Last Year, DATEADD, DATESYTD.
o Running Totals: DATESINPERIOD.

 Tableau (10 hours)

o Mastery from Basics to Advanced
 Libraries (15 hours)
o Matplotlib
o Ggplot2
o Seaborn
 Charting (10 hours)
o Bar Charts, Line Charts, Scatter Plots, Funnel Charts, Histograms, Stacked Charts,
Heatmaps, Pie Charts

Courses

 "Data Visualization with Power BI" by Coursera (12 hours)

 "Data Visualization with Tableau" by UC Davis (10 hours)
 "Master Power BI from Scratch" (20 hours)
 "Tableau for Beginners - Data Visualization with Tableau" (15 hours)
 "Matplotlib and Seaborn for Python Data Visualization" (12 hours)

Tools: Power BI, Tableau, Matplotlib, Seaborn, ggplot2 (15 hours practice)
YouTube Videos

 "Master Power BI" (2 hours)

 "Tableau Tutorial for Beginners" (3 hours)
  "Python Data Visualization with Matplotlib & Seaborn" (3 hours)

Books/Articles

 "The Big Book of Dashboards" by Steve Wexler (15 hours)

 "Storytelling with Data" by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (10 hours)

5. Statistical Analysis

Total Duration: 4-6 weeks (approximately 50-70 hours)

Topics/Subtopics

 Hypothesis Testing (10 hours)

 Correlation Analysis (10 hours)
 Regression (15 hours)

Courses

 "Statistical Inference" by Johns Hopkins University (20 hours)

 "Inferential Statistics" by University of Amsterdam (18 hours)
 "Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis" (18 hours)
 "Machine Learning A-Z™" (25 hours)

Tools: Python (SciPy, StatsModels), R (15 hours practice)

YouTube Videos

 "Introduction to Hypothesis Testing" (2 hours)

 "Correlation vs Causation" (2 hours)
 "Simple Linear Regression Explained" (2 hours)

Books/Articles

 "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman (15 hours)
 "Practical Statistics for Data Scientists" by Peter Bruce and Andrew Bruce (15 hours)

6. Advanced Topics

Total Duration: 6-8 weeks (approximately 80-100 hours)

Machine Learning

 Model Evaluation Techniques (15 hours)

 Machine Learning Types (Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement Learning) (20 hours)
  Popular Machine Learning Algorithms (30 hours)

Courses

 "Applied Data Science with Python" by University of Michigan (25 hours)

 "Introduction to Machine Learning" by Stanford University (20 hours)
 "Machine Learning A-Z™" (30 hours)
 "Deep Learning A-Z™" (30 hours)

Tools: Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, Keras (20 hours practice)

YouTube Videos

 "Machine Learning with Python - Full Course" (3 hours)

 "Deep Learning for Beginners" (3 hours)
 "Machine Learning Algorithms Explained" (2 hours)

Books/Articles

 "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow" by Aurélien Géron (25
hours)
 "Deep Learning" by Ian Goodfellow (30 hours)

7. Big Data Technologies

Total Duration: 6-8 weeks (approximately 70-90 hours)

Topics/Subtopics

 Big Data Concepts (15 hours)

o The 5 Vs of Big Data
o Real-time and Batch Processing
o Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses
 Data Storage Solutions (15 hours)
o NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase)
o Distributed File Systems (HDFS)
 Data Processing Frameworks (20 hours)
o Apache Hadoop
o Apache Spark

Courses

 "Big Data Analysis with Spark" by UC Berkeley (30 hours)

 "Introduction to NoSQL Databases" by Coursera (15 hours)
 "Big Data Specialization" by UC San Diego (40 hours)
Tools: Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB (20 hours practice)
YouTube Videos

 "Introduction to Hadoop and Spark" (3 hours)

 "Big Data Overview" (2 hours)

Books/Articles

 "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide" by Tom White (25 hours)

 "Learning Spark" by Holden Karau (20 hours)

Courses in Introduction to Data Analytics:

1. "Data Science for Everyone" by IBM

2. "Introduction to Data Analytics for Business" by University of Colorado Boulder
3. "Data Analytics Fundamentals" by UC Berkeley
4. "Data Science A-Z™: Real-Life Data Science Exercises"
5. "Learn Data Science with Python"
6. "Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp with R"
7. "Data Science Specialization" by Johns Hopkins University
8. "Data Science for Business" by Harvard Business School
9. "Big Data Analytics" by UC San Diego
10. "Business Analytics for Data-Driven Decision Making" by Babson College

Certifications in Introduction to Data Analytics:

1. Microsoft Power BI Associate Certification

2. IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate
3. Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
4. SAS Certified Big Data Professional
5. Tableau Desktop Certified Associate
6. Cloudera Certified Associate (CCA) Data Analyst
7. Certified Analytics Professional (CAP)
8. Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate (DA-100)
9. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Big Data – Specialty
10. Data Science Certification by DataCamp