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IBM Data Analytics with Excel and R Professional Certificate

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IBM Data Analytics with Excel and R Professional Certificate

Kickstart Your Data Analytics Career w/ Excel & R. Master the data analysis and visualization tools to transform data into information and insights.

Rav Ahuja
Saishruthi Swaminathan
Sandip Saha Joy

Instructors: Rav Ahuja

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4.7

(2,861 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule
3 months at 10 hours a week
Learn at your own pace
Build toward a degree

What you'll learn

  • Utilize Excel spreadsheets to perform a variety of data analysis tasks like data wrangling, using pivot tables, data mining, & creating charts

  • Complete the data analysis process, including data preparation, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, using R, R Studio, and Jupyter

  • Create relational databases and tables, query data, sort, filter and aggregate result sets using SQL and R from JupyterLab

  • Communicate your data findings using various data visualization techniques including, charts, plots & interactive dashboards with Cognos and R Shiny

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Professional Certificate - 8 course series

What you'll learn

  • Explain what Data Analytics is and the key steps in the Data Analytics process

  • Differentiate between different data roles such as Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Business Analyst, and Business Intelligence Analyst

  • Describe the different types of data structures, file formats, and sources of data

  • Describe the data analysis process involving collecting, wrangling, mining, and visualizing data

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Data Lakes
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Collection
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Big Data
Category: Apache Spark
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Relational Databases
Category: Analytics
Category: Statistical Visualization
Category: Apache Hive
Category: Data Warehousing
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Data Mart
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Apache Hadoop
Category: Data Science

What you'll learn

  • Display working knowledge of Excel for Data Analysis.

  • Perform basic spreadsheet tasks including navigation, data entry, and using formulas.

  • Employ data quality techniques to import and clean data in Excel.

  • Analyze data in spreadsheets by using filter, sort, look-up functions, as well as pivot tables.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Excel Formulas
Category: Data Quality
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Data Wrangling
Category: Information Privacy
Category: Google Sheets
Category: Data Science
Category: Data Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Create basic visualizations such as line graphs, bar graphs, and pie charts using Excel spreadsheets.

  • Explain the important role charts play in telling a data-driven story. 

  • Construct advanced charts and visualizations such as Treemaps, Sparklines, Histogram, Scatter Plots, and Filled Map Charts.

  • Build and share interactive dashboards using Excel and Cognos Analytics.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Dashboard
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Data Visualization
Category: IBM Cognos Analytics
Category: Histogram
Category: Tree Maps
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Scatter Plots
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Data Storytelling

What you'll learn

  • Manipulate primitive data types in the R programming language using RStudio or Jupyter Notebooks.

  • Control program flow with conditions and loops, write functions, perform character string operations, write regular expressions, handle errors.

  • Construct and manipulate R data structures, including vectors, factors, lists, and data frames.

  • Read, write, and save data files and scrape web pages using R.

Skills you'll gain

Category: R Programming
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Data Structures
Category: Data Science
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Integrated Development Environments
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Web Scraping
Category: Jupyter
SQL for Data Science with R

SQL for Data Science with R

Course 528 hours

What you'll learn

  • Create and access a database instance on the cloud

  • Compose and execute basic SQL statements - SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP

  • Construct SQL statements to filter, sort, group results, use built-in functions, compose nested queries, access multiple tables

  • Analyze data from Jupyter using R and SQL by combining SQL and R skills to query real-world datasets

Skills you'll gain

Category: SQL
Category: Relational Databases
Category: R Programming
Category: Databases
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Database Design
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Science
Category: Query Languages
Category: Statistical Programming
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Database Management
Category: Data Analysis Software
Data Analysis with R

Data Analysis with R

Course 616 hours

What you'll learn

  • Prepare data for analysis by handling missing values, formatting and normalizing data, binning, and turning categorical values into numeric values.

  • Compare and contrast predictive models using simple linear, multiple linear, and polynomial regression methods.

  • Examine data using descriptive statistics, data grouping, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and correlation statistics.

  • Evaluate a model for overfitting and underfitting conditions and tune its performance using regularization and grid search.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Wrangling
Category: R Programming
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Statistical Modeling
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: Forecasting
Category: Data Science
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Predictive Analytics
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Model Evaluation
Data Visualization with R

Data Visualization with R

Course 712 hours

What you'll learn

  • Create bar charts, histograms, pie charts, scatter plots, line graphs, box plots, and maps using R and related packages.

  • Design customized charts and plots using annotations, axis titles, text labels, themes, and faceting.

  • Create maps using the Leaflet package for R.

  • Create interactive dashboards using the Shiny package for R.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Ggplot2
Category: Shiny (R Package)
Category: Leaflet (Software)
Category: Histogram
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Scatter Plots
Category: Dashboard
Category: Box Plots
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Spatial Data Analysis
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Data Science
Category: UI Components
Category: Plot (Graphics)
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Data Visualization
Category: R Programming

What you'll learn

  • Write a web scraping program to extract data from an HTML file using HTTP requests and convert the data to a data frame.

  • Prepare data for modelling by handling missing values, formatting and normalizing data, binning, and turning categorical values into numeric values.

  • Interpret datawithexploratory data analysis techniques by calculating descriptive statistics, graphing data, and generating correlation statistics.

  • Build a Shiny app containing a Leaflet map and an interactive dashboard then create a presentation on the project to share with your peers.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Ggplot2
Category: Tidyverse (R Package)
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Shiny (R Package)
Category: Data Wrangling
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: Data Collection
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Dashboard
Category: Predictive Analytics
Category: R Programming
Category: Data Science
Category: Statistical Modeling

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Instructors

Rav Ahuja
IBM
56 Courses4,591,568 learners
Saishruthi Swaminathan
IBM
2 Courses373,661 learners
Sandip Saha Joy
IBM
5 Courses678,718 learners

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