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Analysing Data Course

This course teaches students how to explore, analyse data and to ask the right questions that lead to better insights. It starts with an an introduction to the data analysis capabilities of several popular software tools: Excel, Python, Power Query and Power BI. It also introduces the data analysis capabilities of generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Copilot. It describes tabular data and why we must get data into a tabular format before we can successfully analyse it. Finally, it covers techniques for cleaning and analysing data e.g., descriptive statistics, summarising , binning, grouping…

Here is the course outline.

Please follow the joining instructions well before the course.

In the lab exercises, we explore many datasets from the course datasets landing page. Keep this link handy.

Note that this course uses Excel, Python and Power BI Desktop in the hands-on lab exercises. The joining instructions provide details of how to install or set up these before teh course

Course Structure

Tools for data analysis

Tabular Data

Tidy Data

Tabular and Tidy Data exercise

Data analysis techniques

Descriptive Statistics and descriptive statistics exercise

Optional Topics

Improving Data Quality: discussion and exercise

Survey Data

Predictive Analysis and predictive analysis exercise

Performance Analysis & Reporting

Attendee data analysis needs exercise

What is data? How do we analyse it?

Appendix

Data Quality Approaches

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