IBM Data Analyst Coursera

Overview

Power your data analyst career by learning the core principles of data analysis and gaining hands-on skills practice. You’ll work with a variety of data sources, project scenarios, and data analysis tools, including Excel, SQL, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and Cognos Analytics, gaining practical experience with data manipulation and applying analytical techniques.

This Professional Certificate does not require any prior programming or statistical skills, and is suitable for learners with or without college degrees. All you need to get started is basic computer literacy, high school math, comfort working with numbers, willingness to learn, and a desire to enrich your profile with valuable skills.

Upon successful completion of this  IBM Data Analyst couse offered by Coursera, you’ll have analyzed real-world datasets, created interactive dashboards, and presented reports to share your findings, giving you the confidence and the portfolio to begin a career as an associate or junior data analyst. You’ll also build the foundation for other data disciplines such as data science or data engineering.

Applied Learning Project

Throughout the program, you’ll complete hands-on projects and labs and gain a firm grasp on the technical skills required to effectively gather, wrangle, mine, and visualize data, as well as soft skills for working with stakeholders and storytelling with data to engage your audience. 

At the end of the program, you will complete a real-world capstone project specifically designed to showcase your newly learned data analyst skills. 

All these projects can be combined into a portfolio on GitHub or another service to clearly convey your experience and skills to potential employers.