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IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate
Unlock your potential in data analytics. Build job-ready skills for an indemand career as a data analyst. No degree or prior experience needed
to get started.
3 Months at suggested pace of 10 hours/week
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Build the Skills to Get Job Ready
Hands-On Projects
Earn a Career Credential
Gain the job-ready skills for an entry-level data analyst role through this eight-course Professional
Certificate from IBM and position yourself competitively in the thriving job market for data analysts,
which will see a 20% growth until 2028 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). Power your data analyst career
by learning the core principles of data analysis and gaining hands-on skills practice. You’ll work with a
variety of data sources, project scenarios, and data analysis tools, including Excel, SQL, Python, Jupyter
Notebooks, and Cognos Analytics, gaining practical experience with data manipulation and applying
analytical techniques. This Professional Certificate does not require any prior programming or statistical
skills and is suitable for learners with or without college degrees. All you need to get started is basic
computer literacy, high school math, comfort working with numbers, willingness to learn, and a desire
to enrich your profile with valuable skills. Upon successful completion of this program, you’ll have
analyzed real-world datasets, created interactive dashboards, and presented reports to share your
findings, giving you the confidence and the portfolio to begin a career as an associate or junior data
analyst.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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Demonstrate proficiency in using spreadsheets and utilizing Excel to perform a variety of data
analysis tasks like data wrangling and data mining
Create various charts and plots in Excel & work with IBM Cognos Analytics to build dashboards.
Visualize data using Python libraries like Matplotlib
Develop working knowledge of Python language for analyzing data using Python libraries like
Pandas and NumPy, and invoke APIs and Web Services
Describe data ecosystem and Compose queries to access data in cloud databases using SQL and
Python from Jupyter notebooks
Applied Learning Project
Throughout the program, you’ll complete hands-on projects and labs and gain a firm grasp on the
technical skills required to effectively gather, wrangle, mine, and visualize data, as well as soft skills
for working with stakeholders and storytelling with data to engage your audience. At the end of the
program, you will complete a real-world capstone project specifically designed to showcase your
newly learned data analyst skills. All these projects can be combined into a portfolio on GitHub or
another service to clearly convey your experience and skills to potential employers.