More and more industries and organizations are starting to harness the power of big data for identifying trends and for strategic decision making. Power BI and Tableau are two most popular data analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) technologies for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information. Power BI is a business analytics service provided by Microsoft that can analyze and visualize data, extract insights, and share it across various departments within your organization. While Tableau is a powerful BI tool that manages the data flow and turns data into actionable information. It can create a wide range of different visualization to present the data and showcase insights interactively.
This course will help students develop data engineering and data visualization skills and apply the skills in performing data analysis on large data sets and build compelling visualizations. It is very hands-on and students will work with real industrial data sets from manufacturing and healthcare domains. The course will include the following topics:
This course is primarily aimed at a business/data analyst with 12-18 months of professional experience in a management reporting job role and is familiar with data analytical tools such as Excel. Some programming background is desirable but not required. Basic knowledge of statistics will be helpful.
Qualified Monroe County residents may be eligible for funding. Visit www.workforceforward.com/mpower to learn more.