Description:
This self-paced online Data Analyst Career Certificate Program provides you a university career certificate and the knowledge, practical experience, competency and confidence to qualify for high-paying data analyst jobs.
Data analysts are professionals who collect, process and perform analyses on enterprises’ huge quantities of information to help them make better and faster business decisions. Virtually all enterprises now have reached “data overload” and need data analysts to help them make sense of massive amounts of information. According to Indeed Inc., there are currently more than 43,000 data analyst job openings in the United States, and data analysts can earn up to nearly $90,000 annually.
This program is suitable for you if you are seeking to enhance your career or looking for a new career in a high-demand occupation. You will learn how to do it all in data analytics: from cleaning data to presenting it in visual form, performing qualitative and quantitative analysis of data, interpreting data and making predictions.
This online program utilizes active, self-paced, Learn-By-Doing training. This innovative approach provides bite-sized lessons, requiring you to show you have mastered each concept by completing exercises before moving on to the next module. This competency-based approach builds knowledge as well as practical experience, both of which are needed to qualify for most data analyst job openings.
This training program consists of four or five courses, depending on whether you have prior programming experience. The time it takes to complete the training varies from person to person. Each course takes an average of 80 hours to complete. While the majority of trainees complete the training program in well under a year and some complete it in as little as 6 months, your personal situation will determine how long it will take you to graduate.
During your training, you will have both a personal tutor and a coach who help every step of the way. These experts also are proactive in reaching out to you at regular intervals to discuss progress and provide assistance.
Trainees who successfully complete the program will receive a certificate of completion from the University of Nevada, Reno and will walk away with the professional portfolio necessary to demonstrate ability and qualify for job openings.
Program Pre-requisites:
You must successfully complete a two-hour online assessment to gain acceptance to this program. A programming background shortens the time it takes to complete the training, but is not required.
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Program Components:
SQL Fundamentals (80 hours): Training begins with this course, where you will learn about data and databases, with emphasis on Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs), which are used in virtually all industries and organizations to store data about employees, products, services, inventory, financial transactions, etc. You will learn how a RDBMS works, how to make basic queries, use aggregate functions, create and manage tables, and how to use basic joins.
Advanced SQL (80 hours): In a real company setting, RDBMSs tend to be large, complex and messy (they often contain damaged and/or incomplete data). To successfully handle such databases, training continues with this course, which teaches you how to use conditional expressions; work with text, including search-and-replace operations, formulate subqueries and advanced joins; and how to use SQL functions.
Introduction to Computer Programming (optional 80 hours): If you have little or no prior experience in computer programming, you will take this course next. This powerful visual course will transform the way you think. In computer programming, correct algorithmic (computational) thinking is far more important than the knowledge of a particular programming language. This course will unlock your computer programming potential, and make it much easier for you to learn Python and other programming languages in the future.
Introduction to Python For Data Science (80 hours): The next part of the program includes Python programming. Python is a step up from SQL. If you have sufficient prior experience in computer programming, you will skip Introduction to Computer Programming and progress directly to this course, which is an introductory Python programming course. You will learn in a hands-on fashion by solving programming tasks of gradually increasing complexity, ranging from simple calculations, working with text strings, loops, conditions and variables, to file operations and data visualization.
Predictive Data Analytics with Python (80 hours): In this final course, you will learn how to use Python and its powerful free libraries, including Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, Seaborn and Statsmodels to read data from files, clean data, present data in visual form, perform qualitative and quantitative analysis of data, interpret data and make predictions. At the end of this course, you will complete a Capstone Project under the supervision of a senior NCLab Data Analytics tutor in order to graduate and obtain your Data Analyst Career Certificate.
Participation in the program requires a personal computer, high-speed internet access and an email address.
The University of Nevada, Reno Extended Studies Data Analyst Career Certificate is delivered through a partnership with NCLab, an innovative STEM career training provider.