Month 1
1. Introduction to Data Analysis (Week 1)
- De nition and importance
- Types of data analytics: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive
2. Foundational Skills (Week 1-2)
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Algebra: basic operations, equations, inequalities
- Calculus: integrals, derivatives (optional)
- Linear Algebra: matrices, vectors, transformations
- Probability: distributions, random variables
- Descriptive Statistics: mean, median, mode, standard deviation
- Inferential Statistics: hypothesis testing, con dence intervals
3. Data Handling and Preparation (Week 3)
- Data Collection
- Methods: surveys, experiments, web scraping
- Tools: APIs, databases
- Data Cleaning
- Handling missing values
- Removing duplicates
- Identifying outliers
- Data Transformation
- Normalisation, scaling
- Encoding categorical variables
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4. Programming for Data Analysis (Week 4)
- Excel (Spreadsheet)
- Data manipulation with spreadsheets
- Advanced Formulas
- Data visualisation in Excel
- Python
- Data manipulation with Pandas
- Data visualisation with Matplotlib and Seaborn
- SQL
- Querying databases
- Data extraction and manipulation
Month 2
5. Data Visualisation Techniques (Week 5)
- Principles of e ective data visualisation
- Types of charts and graphs
- Bar charts, histograms
- Line charts, scatter plots
- Box plots, violin plots
- Tools for data visualisation
- Tableau, Power BI
- Python libraries: Matplotlib, Seaborn
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6. Practical Applications and Projects (Week 6-7)
- Case studies in various industries
- Hands-on projects:
- Predicting sales trends
- Customer segmentation analysis
- Data visualisation dashboards (4 Projects)
1. Finance Dashboard (Excel)
2. Covid Database (Tableau / PowerBI)
3. Net ix Dashboard (Tableau/ PowerBI)
4. Airline Data Analysis (Sentiment analysis + Data Mining) - Python
7. Professional Development (Week 8)
- Building a portfolio
- Networking in the data analytics community
- Preparing for data analyst interviews
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