Data Analyst

This eight-course Professional Certificate from IBM prepares you with job-ready skills for an entry level data analyst role. Position yourself competitively and power your data analyst career for a job in a thriving market or leverage foundational data skills to explore problems in an increasingly data-driven professional world. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a growth rate of 20% in the data analytics industry until 2028.

You will learn the core principles of data analysis, participate in hands-on skills-based practice, and gain the knowledge to help companies make smarter business decisions. You will work with a variety of data sources, project scenarios, and data analysis tools, including Excel, SQL, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and Cognos Analytics. These online learning tools will offer you practical experience with data manipulation and the application of analytical and data visualization techniques.

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

With the IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate you will develop the confidence and portfolio to begin a career as an associate or junior data analyst by learning the essential skills that help professionals in a wide range of job functions and industries explore business problems.

Learn the fundamentals of Data Analytics and gain an understanding of the data ecosystem, the process and lifecycle of data analytics, career opportunities, and the different learning paths you can take to be a Data Analyst.

Build the fundamental knowledge required to use Excel spreadsheets to perform basic data analysis. The course covers the basic workings and key features of Excel to help students analyze their data.

Build the fundamental knowledge necessary to use Excel and IBM Cognos Analytics to create data visualizations and to create dashboards containing those visualizations to help tell a lucid story about data.

This Python course provides a beginner-friendly introduction to Python for Data Science. Practice through lab exercises, and you'll be ready to create your first Python scripts on your own!

This mini-course is intended for you to demonstrate foundational Python skills for working with data.

Learn how to use and apply the powerful language of SQL to better communicate and extract data from databases - a must for anyone working in the data science field.

In this course, you will learn how to analyze data in Python using multi-dimensional arrays in numpy, manipulate DataFrames in pandas, use SciPy library of mathematical routines, and perform machine learning using scikit-learn!

Data visualization is the graphical representation of data in order to interactively and efficiently convey insights to clients, customers, and stakeholders in general.

Accelerate the knowledge you gain from previous courses in the IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate program. Assume the role of an Associate Data Analyst and use various skills and techniques on real-world datasets to accomplish a task.