Exploring data in meaningful ways is vital for any organisation. Instead of guesswork, businesses can use data to make informed decisions – overcoming challenges and moving forward with useful insights.

This ExpertTrack provides a beginner’s guide to descriptive statistics, using Power BI, data visualisations, and query reports on Excel.

You’ll get a complete overview of data analysis, and how you can apply these essential practices to your workplace.

Master data analysis in Excel

With new tools enabling the analysis of more data, Excel is now one of the most widely used solutions for analysing and visualising data.

You’ll delve into data analysis in Excel and learn how to import data from different sources, create mashups between data sources, and prepare data for analysis.

After preparing the data, you’ll find out how business calculations can be expressed.

Discover how to use Power BI for advanced data analysis

As you start your data analysis and visualisation journey with Power BI, you’ll gain an overview of Power BI and how you can use it to connect to multiple data sources, create and enhance the data model, explore the data, create stunning visualisations, upload reports, and create dashboards.

What’s more, you’ll learn how you can share all of these with your co-workers and business users, across both web and mobile devices.

Unpack statistics for data analysis in Excel

To maximise your potential as a data analyst, you’ll learn how to use the powerful Excel tools to explore the core principles of statistics and basic probability.

With this knowledge, you’ll understand random variables, sampling, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.

Learn how to apply your data analyst skills in any workplace

Data analysis takes place in the context of industry pressures, considerations of environment and data ecosystems, and what’s happening in the real world.

You’ll unpack the larger context that any organisation or industry must contend with while doing the work of a data analyst . This knowledge will help your build the confidence to ensure you can apply your skills to the workplace.

Learn from the experts at CloudSwyft to boost your career

As a leading Learning-as-a-Service platform provider, CloudSwyft are specialists in helping their learners develop future-ready skills.

This ExpertTrack gives you the opportunity to develop critical data analysis skills to help you stand out in the field.