
Become a data analyst or business analyst by mastering Python & SQL, Power BI, Excel, and statistics to derive insights from raw data and inform business decisions.
avoid common mistakes when learning data analytics tools, from biased samples and vague goals to misinterpreting correlation and causation; explore descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics with Excel, SQL, and Python.
Explore data definition language (DDL) concepts in SQL, including creating and altering tables, constraints, primary keys, data types, and referential integrity. Learn practical basics of relational design.
Explore data control languages and domain constraints, detailing commit, rollback, savepoint, and grant or revoke permissions, plus domain, key, and check constraints to preserve data integrity.
Explore primary keys and foreign keys, including composite keys, and learn how to join tables, enforce constraints, and use set operators such as union, intersect, truncate, and delete in SQL.
Explore sql rank functions, including rank, dense_rank, and row_number, and how partition by and order by affect rankings. Learn to create and manage views and briefly cover triggers.
Explore sql triggers and stored procedures to automate queries, log salary changes with triggers, and manage before or after events on tables; learn subqueries, indexing basics, and procedural reuse.
Explore core Python data structures: lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets, and master string manipulations, including indexing, slicing, searching, and tokenization for data analysis tasks.
Learn to build and format Power BI tables and matrix visuals to summarize orders data with sales, profit, and quantity, using filters, aggregations, drill-downs, and conditional formatting.
Learn to build and tailor Power BI slicers by region, city, and date hierarchies, including single or multiple select and orientation options, to enhance dashboards.
In business, being able to understand, harness, and use data is no longer a skill reserved for a handful of well-paid analysts. It's becoming an essential part of many roles.
If that sounds daunting, don't worry. There is a growing set of tools designed to make data analysis accessible to everyone, in this huge-value, four-course Data Analysts Toolbox bundle we look in detail at three of those tools: Excel, Python, and Power BI.
In isolation Excel, Python, and Power BI are useful and powerful. Learn all three and you are well on your way to gaining a much deeper understanding of how to perform complex data analysis.
This Data Analysts Toolbox bundle is aimed at intermediate Excel users who are new to Python and Power BI. All courses include practice exercises so you can put into practice exactly what you learn.
What Can SQL do?
SQL can execute queries against a database
SQL can retrieve data from a database
SQL can insert records into a database
SQL can update records in a database
SQL can delete records from a database
SQL can create new databases
SQL can create new tables in a database
SQL can create stored procedures in a database
SQL can create views in a database
SQL can set permissions on tables, procedures, and views
Power BI
What is Power BI and why you should be using it?
To import CSV and Excel files into Power BI Desktop.
How to use Merge Queries to fetch data from other queries.
How to create relationships between the different tables of the data model.
All about DAX including using the COUTROWS, CALCULATE, and SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR functions.
All about using the card visual to create summary information.
How to use other visuals such as clustered column charts, maps, and trend graphs.
How to use Slicers to filter your reports.
How to use themes to format your reports quickly and consistently.
How to edit the interactions between your visualizations and filter at visualization, page, and report level.