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Data Analysis Work-related Courses

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 Data Analysis Work-related Courses These are the most useful courses (in that order) in case an individual is seeking a job as a data analyst. 1) Excel for Data Analysis Why it is important: Excel is utilized in almost every company. You should learn: VLOOKUP / XLOOKUP Pivot Tables Conditional Formatting Charts & Dashboards Data cleaning (eliminate duplicates, text to columns). Job description: MIS Executive, Junior Data Analyst. 2) SQL (Very Important for Jobs) Why it is important: Data is stored in the databases of companies. You should learn: SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY JOIN (INNER, LEFT, RIGHT) GROUP BY, HAVING Subqueries Job descriptions: Data Analyst, Business Analyst. 3) Python for Data Analysis The reason why it is important is to automate and perform a more sophisticated analysis. You should learn: Python basics Pandas, NumPy Statistics cleaning and transformation. Matplotlib / Seaborn (visualization) Job description: Data Analyst, Data Scientist (entry-level) 4) Data...