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Data Analytics
Bootcamp
Part time
Last updated on 07-15-2024

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Overview
General Assembly’s Data Analytics Bootcamp is a
beginner-level course that will prepare you to launch
a successful career in one of today’s fastest-growing
job markets.

Created to transform your career in 24 weeks, this part time

bootcamp will equip you with the tools and techniques
needed to go from novice to expert and develop a data
career full of opportunities and growth potential.

Join us on a part time schedule for our in-person classroom

lessons led by instructors with remote support sessions.
It’s a 24 week part-time program with approximately 18
hours of commitment per week and about 3 hours per week
of homework or labs outside of class. Our instructor-led
lesson will take place between 6-9 pm. on four weekday
evenings for example: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings with 3 hours of optional lab work/
office hours sessions per week.

Additionally, you’ll be expected to spend about 3 hours per

week working on homework and labs outside of class.

Once you complete this bootcamp, you’ll present potential

employers with an impressive resume highlighting your
capabilities with the most in-demand tools they are looking
for. You’ll also have sought-after soft skills that will make
you stand out.

Our industry-aligned curriculum prepares you to:

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• Manage the entire data analytics workflow.

• Acquire, analyze, and visualize data sets in real time.
• Master industry-standard tools like SQL, Excel, Tableau, PowerBI,
and Python.
• Turn data into stories that can influence and inform important decisions.
• Ask the right questions and answer them with data-informed insights.
• Demonstrate what you’ve learned with a solid professional portfolio.

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What To Expect
Engage in hands-on, project-based learning that’s designed to cover the most
important data analytics concepts and tools.
As a student, you’ll:
• Explore new concepts and tools through expert-led lectures and
discussions.
• Complete hands-on exercises with real-world data sets to reinforce
newly learned skills.
• Receive individualized feedback and support from your instructional
team.
• Apply what you’ve learned to create a portfolio project: a presentation
detailing your approach to and findings from solving a real-world data
problem.
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Dedicated Career Coaching:

As a bootcamp student, you’ll receive dedicated support from career coaches who will
help you set goals, make a roadmap for success, and stay on track with your job search.
Throughout the course, you’ll:
• Get an inside look at the industry through day-in-the-life talks, hiring panel
discussions, guest speakers, and more.
• Cultivate a competitive candidate mindset, learning to assess your skill set against job
descriptions, track progress, and recognize opportunities.
• Develop your professional brand: Polish your online and in-person presence, and build
confidence to set yourself apart in interviews.
• Tap into an exclusive global network of experts, influencers, and peers, plus learn
strategies for leveraging your existing connections, in person and online.
• Become an active contributor to the developer community.
• After graduation, you’ll also gain access to resources to help fuel a lifetime
of learning.
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Prerequisites
This is an entry-level course meant for true beginners.
Whether you are only starting to realize the potential of data
analytics or you can list off the top tools used in this field, we
don’t expect you to have any foundational elements prior to
this other than basic computer literacy, a desire to learn, and
a clear line of sight to your future goals.

Our Admissions team, however, is available to discuss your

background and learning goals and advise whether this
bootcamp is a good fit for you.
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What You’ll Learn

Pre-Work Welcome to Get up and running with key concepts and tools you’ll
use throughout the course with these recommended
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instructor-led lessons. Explore the essentials of data
wrangling — i.e., the process of finding, sifting through,
cleaning, and transforming data — so it can be used to
answer business questions.
The Data Framework
• Explain the value of data.
• Describe the data framework and how it’s used by
analysts.
• Write a specific and testable question given
a scenario.
Finding the Right Data
• Describe the data sources available for analysis.
Evaluate data sets and their variables.
• Determine if a data set can be used to solve a
business problem.
Cleaning your data
• Use the filter feature to spot check for problematic
data.
• Handle missing data based on industry norms.
• Use conditional formatting to identify duplicates
and extreme values within a data set.
• Use Find and Replace to fix issues/errors that are
easily identifiable.
• Select a data cleaning strategy based on a given
scenario.
Organizing data with functions
• Use VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP.
• Use INDEX MATCH.
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• Distinguish between the three functions.

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Unit 1 Responsible Become an effective inspector, critically scrutinizing

datasets for veracity and quality before deciding to use
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them. You’ll understand how to identify reliable data
sources, data storytelling, algorithmic bias, and data
ethics.
• Identify the possible limitations and quality issues
associated with unfamiliar datasets including
missing data or unreliable sources.
• Understand the bias that is being introduced into
predictive models through training data, choice of
model, or evaluation metric.
• Explain the ethical and regulatory issues
associated with data acquisition methods.
• Apply a checklist to assess whether the data are
likely to be accurate and reliable.
• Qualify issues in a data set and diagnose the type
of missing data.
• Apply ethical scraping principles to a given
scenario.

Unit 2 Statistics and Mathematics Jump into the fundamental statistical and mathematical
techniques required for data analytics. Understand
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descriptive statistics, dependent and independent
variables, types of missing data, linear regression, and
model validation.
• Identify the difference between key descriptive
statistics, including the median and mean.
• Given a scenario, determine whether a simple or
complex model should be used.
• Apply the principles of linear regression, including
minimizing the sum of squared residuals, and using
RMSE as a performance metric.
• Compute appropriate statistics using a variety of
tools, including SQL, Excel, Tableau, or Python.
• Choose an appropriate model to solve a given
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problem; justify the choice of the model used and

identify the independent variables.

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Unit 3 Data Acquisition and Develop your SQL skills. You’ll complete this unit with
an understanding of the benefits of using specialized
Cleaning With SQL
tools such as SQL for specific stages of the data
analytics workflow, over multi-purpose tools such
as Excel.
• Know the difference between relational and
non-relational databases, and identify the advan-
tages and disadvantages of relational and non-re-
lational databases.
• Apply knowledge of Boolean logic when filtering
datasets and SQL syntax, and debug queries that
produce error messages.
• Apply algorithmic thinking skills to a series of SQL
queries given an analytical question.
• Interpret the results and indicate the limitations of
the data given a query.

Unit 4 Data Analysis Explore and analyze datasets using Excel. Learn to
write formulas to perform more complex analyses and
and Interpretation
build visualizations using lookups to efficiently search
With Excel datasets and pivot tables.
• Apply syntax and commonly used commands for
cleaning, transforming, and analyzing data.
• Justify the choice of analysis, given a scenario, and
select the appropriate calculations to perform for a
given task.
• Select the most appropriate visualizations to
effectively communicate results.
• Given a scenario, identify the correct order of steps
of the analytics workflow to plan and implement a
full data analysis.
• Determine whether an unfamiliar dataset requires
extensive cleaning or manipulation.
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Unit 5 Data Analysis With Analyze and visualize data using the dashboarding
and business intelligence tools Tableau and Power BI.
Tableau and Power BI
Effective visualization and communication with
storytelling will be the heart and soul of this unit.
• Tackle every stage of the data analytics workflow,
including handling very large datasets.
• Identify and apply data visualization tools that can
interface with a range of data sources.
• Determine whether exploratory data analysis is
required as a precursor to predictive modeling
tasks, given a scenario.
• Demonstrate the principles of good data
dashboard design.
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Unit 6 Data Analysis Now is the point to enhance your growing skills in data
acquisition, analysis, and visualization using Python
With Python
programming fundamentals, data acquisition with APIs,
exploratory data analysis, and simple linear regression.
• Identify the algorithmic thinking skills that
are required to break complex questions into
smaller steps.
• Indicate how Jupyter Notebook is a useful
development environment for data analytics.
• Identify the information that can be gained from
Matplotlib, seaborn, or Plotly.
• Determine the significance of certain metrics when
performing exploratory data analyses in pandas.

Unit 7 Data in the Organization Learn the skills you need to work in an organization, as
part of a team of data professionals and nontechnical
colleagues. The importance of adhering to regulations,
data privacy, and security will also be emphasized.
• Identify landmark legislation around data
governance and privacy, including GDPR and
how it applies to roles in an organization.
• Identify the differences between commonly used
agile working frameworks, including scrum and
kanban.
• Give a technical presentation in which information
is presented concisely for a non-technical
audience.
• Deploy a Python script on a cloud service to
demonstrate that continuous monitoring and
analysis are possible.

Unit 8 Capstone Projects To round out your education, you will apply rigorous
data analysis techniques to solve a problem in two
projects: a group project and an individual project. Both
will require you to collect, clean, and analyze a data set
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and create a compelling presentation to share your —

or your team’s — insights.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why is this Data Analytics Bootcamp relevant today?
Data analyst is one of the most in-demand job roles today. In fact, the World Economic
Forum cited it as a fast growing field in many sectors worldwide and in Bahrain. As
companies in virtually every industry — from information technology to higher education —
harness the power of big data to make decisions, demand for data analysts is skyrocketing.

What are the backgrounds of data analytics students?

Data Analytics is our best entry-level data course for professionals looking to hone
analysis skills and evolve their careers. You’ll find a diverse range of students in the
classroom, including:
• Data analysts who want to brush up on core techniques and formalize their skill set.
• Digital marketers, sales managers, product managers, UX researchers, and others
who deal with large volumes of data on a daily basis.
• Managers who need to tell compelling, data-driven stories to business stakeholders
to influence decision-making.
• Career-starters looking for a practical skill set to boost their resumes.
• Regardless of their backgrounds, this program attracts a community of eager learners
who are interested in manipulating large data sets to solve problems.

Who is eligible for tuition sponsorship by Tamkeen and GA? And what does tuition
sponsorship cover?
You must be a Bahraini citizen 18 years and above to receive tuition sponsorship. Tuition
sponsorship covers:
• Expert instruction in the skills you need to enter the workforce.
• Self-paced pre-work to explore data analytics fundamentals to help you hit the
ground running on day one of class.
• Robust coursework, including expert-vetted lesson decks, project toolkits, and more.
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• A professional-grade portfolio of projects taken from concept to completion — each

mirroring real problems that data analysts face — that allows you to showcase the
breadth of your technical skills to employers.
• Individual feedback and guidance from instructors and TAs during office hours.
• Dedicated career services to help you navigate your personal job search experience,
from technical challenges to salary negotiation and more.
• Technical interview prep, including resume reviews, mock interviews, and
whiteboarding practice.
• A GA course certificate to showcase your new skill set on LinkedIn.

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Will I earn a certificate?

Yes! Upon passing this course, you’ll receive a signed certificate of completion. Thousands
of GA alumni use their course certificates to demonstrate skills to potential employers —
including our expanding local Middle East partners — along with their LinkedIn networks.
GA’s tech programs are well-regarded by many top employers who contribute to our
curriculum and partner with us to train their own teams.

Who teaches this course?

Our instructors represent the best and brightest senior analysts from top companies like
Atlassian, Capital One, and Deloitte. They combine in-depth experience as practitioners
with a passion for nurturing the next generation of talent. We work with a large pool of
experienced instructors around the world. Please speak with our Admisions team to find out
who is teaching the upcoming course in your location.

Can I work full-time while enrolled in this course?

You can definitely be employed while taking the course. However, it’s a 24-week part-time
program with approximately 18 hours of commitment per week. There will be approx 12
hours of instructor-led sessions per week and 3-6 hours of optional lab work/office hours
per week. Additionally, you’ll be expected to spend time working on homework and projects
outside of class.

Where are the GA & Tamkeen courses delivered?

The GA and Tamkeen courses are delivered in person at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and
Finance (BIBF).
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Take the Next Step

Have questions about our Data Analytics Bootcamp course?
Our Admissions team is here to help and can advise on if this
program is right for you and your learning goals. You can also:
• Apply for the course here.
• Explore upcoming workshops.
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