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Marketing Data & Reporting Essentials Specialization

Coursera

Marketing Data & Reporting Essentials Specialization

Turn Marketing Data Into Confident Decisions.

Master data cleaning, SQL, modeling, visualization, and reporting for modern marketing analytics.

Hurix Digital
John Whitworth
LearningMate

Instructors: Hurix Digital

Access provided by University of Prince Mugrin

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Intermediate level

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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Track digital marketing channels using UTM parameters, clean campaign datasets, and reconcile conversion counts across GA4, ad platforms, and CRM.

  • Profile data quality, apply SQL joins with AI assistance, and design star schema data models with KPI frameworks for scalable marketing reporting.

  • Analyze campaign performance using pivot tables and line charts, and build stakeholder-ready analytical commentary grounded in real metrics.

  • Create time-series visualizations in Looker Studio and connect marketing data sources in BI tools to produce shareable performance dashboards.

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Specialization - 9 course series

Track & Digital Marketing Channels

Track & Digital Marketing Channels

Course 1, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Channel-specific metrics drive strategy. Understanding unique indicators from email open rates to social engagement enables targeted optimization.

  • Consistent tracking ensures reliable data. UTM standardization creates clean analytics that reveals true performance and attribution paths

  • Campaign attribution transforms budgets. URL tracking bridges marketing activities to outcomes, enabling data-driven resource allocation decisions.

  • Foundation knowledge accelerates specialization. Mastering channel fundamentals provides the foundation for advanced marketing roles

Skills you'll gain

Category: Campaign Management
Category: Performance Measurement
Category: Web Analytics
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Online Advertising
Category: Digital Advertising
Category: Social Media Marketing
Category: Marketing Channel
Category: Data-Driven Marketing
Category: Digital Marketing Campaigns
Category: Digital Marketing
Category: Email Marketing
Category: Marketing Analytics
Category: Cross-Channel Marketing
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Marketing Effectiveness
Excel for Data Analysis

Excel for Data Analysis

Course 2, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Analyze data with stats and conditional formatting to summarize and highlight key insights.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Presentation
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Statistical Reporting
Category: Customer Analysis
Category: Descriptive Statistics
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Excel Formulas
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Research Reports
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Descriptive Analytics
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Case Studies
Category: Google Sheets
Category: Performance Analysis
Apply Data Cleaning Basics

Apply Data Cleaning Basics

Course 3, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Normalize UTM fields and standardize marketing channel naming conventions

  • Remove duplicate records and clean inconsistent campaign datasets

  • Reconcile conversion counts across GA4, ad platforms, and CRM systems

  • Build validation workflows that identify discrepancies and reporting gaps

Profile Data Quality

Profile Data Quality

Course 4, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Compute completeness, uniqueness, and distribution metrics for marketing datasets 

  • Identify null values, duplicates, and anomalies using SQL and spreadsheets 

  • Evaluate profiling outputs to prioritize data quality issues by business impact 

  • Create data quality baselines and remediation plans for stakeholders 

Query Your Data: SQL for the AI Era

Query Your Data: SQL for the AI Era

Course 5, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Apply SQL joins to connect marketing data across ads, sessions, and CRM tables

  • Use AI tools to generate and validate SQL queries for campaign metrics

  • Analyze and fix aggregation errors like double counting in joined datasets

  • Optimize SQL queries using filtering, CTEs, and structured query logic

Create Data Models

Create Data Models

Course 6, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Design star and snowflake data models for marketing analytics use cases 

  • Define fact and dimension tables with primary and foreign key relationships 

  • Build KPI frameworks that map business objectives to measurable metrics 

  • Create semantic layers and data structures for consistent reporting 

Analyze Marketing Data: Drive Campaign Success

Analyze Marketing Data: Drive Campaign Success

Course 7, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Data organization through pivot tables is fundamental for revealing performance patterns across marketing channels that remain hidden in raw data.

  • Visual trend analysis requires systematic interpretation of peaks, troughs, and changes to distinguish random fluctuations from meaningful signals.

  • Effective marketing optimization depends on calculating key metrics like average order value and revenue by channel against historical benchmarks.

  • Strategic marketing decisions emerge from combining quantitative analysis with critical evaluation of trend magnitude and business implications.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Marketing Analytics
Category: Performance Measurement
Category: Performance Reporting
Category: Business Reporting
Category: Business Metrics
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Descriptive Analytics
Category: Strategic Marketing
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Marketing Budgets
Category: Marketing Strategies
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Data-Driven Marketing
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Excel Formulas
Category: Google Sheets
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Visualize and Chart Marketing Data Fast

Visualize and Chart Marketing Data Fast

Course 8, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • BI tools are essential infrastructure for modern marketing analytics, providing scalable alternatives to basic spreadsheet applications.

  • Visual data representation accelerates insight discovery and stakeholder communication more effectively than raw data tables.

  • Foundational chart creation skills transfer across multiple BI platforms, making initial tool mastery a gateway to advanced analytics capabilities.

  • Data connection and basic visualization workflows follow consistent patterns regardless of specific tool selection.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Intelligence Software
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Performance Reporting
Category: Dashboard Creation
Category: Analytics
Category: Marketing Analytics
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Grafana
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Dashboard
Category: Power BI
Category: Tableau Software
Category: Data-Driven Marketing
Category: IBM Cognos Analytics
Category: Data Integration
Category: Splunk
Visualize Marketing Data with Looker Studio

Visualize Marketing Data with Looker Studio

Course 9, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Visual data representation turns complex marketing metrics into clear insights that support smarter, faster strategic decisions.

  • Structured data connections and chart setup ensure consistent, accurate, and reliable reporting across all marketing campaigns.

  • Strong data sharing and collaboration help teams align quickly on performance trends and optimization opportunities.

  • Time-series visuals uncover trends hidden in raw tables, enabling proactive and data-driven campaign management.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Data Sharing
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Business Reporting
Category: Marketing Analytics
Category: Performance Reporting
Category: Power BI
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Data Integration
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Tableau Software
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Descriptive Analytics
Category: Grafana
Category: Performance Metric

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Hurix Digital
454 Courses62,768 learners
John Whitworth
30 Courses3,682 learners
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