Certificate in Data Analytics - World Education

This certificate in data analytics provides an overview of topics in statistics and their applications in a variety of fields. This certificate will present the basics of quantitative analysis and its increasing use in today’s professional landscape. Learners are exposed to quantitative decision-making tools and techniques, which tie into real-world case studies. This course, offered by our accredited school partners, utilizes games, videos, interactive exercises, quizzes, real world case studies, and other engaging content to ensure rapid mastery of the content and direct application. Course videos and lessons focus on use of both Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice. This certificate will enhance skills in:

Applying analytics in decision making
Distinguishing good data from bad data
Evaluating research techniques to yield the most accurate results
Utilizing descriptive statistics in a variety of settings
Creating a graphical representation of descriptive statistics
Employing forecasting techniques
Performing a regression analysis
Making recommendations based on analytics

Introduction to Data Analysis:
Whatever your profession. Whatever your field. As a professional, and certainly as a leader, you will be asked to make a decision based on data. This course will introduce the different types of decisions made in an organizational setting, why quantitative analytics is important and how quality data can affect decision making. Since quantitative analytics is used in various settings, this course also offers insight into how research is used in different sectors and how it varies accordingly. From a management perspective, the course highlights appropriate methods on a case by case basis, and ways to ensure quality and accuracy through design.
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Explain why quantitative analysis and analytics is important in decision making
Explain the types of decisions that can be made analytically in an organizational setting
Describe different decision making models and tools
Identify the fundamental concepts of measurement including levels of measurement, reliability and validity, errors, measurement and information bias
Explain how quality data affects decision making (GIGO principle)
Describe methods of ensuring the quality of data
Evaluate techniques for ensuring accurate research design
Describe how research is used in different settings: business, education, health care, the military, government, nonprofits
Explain data management techniques including transforming data, recoding data, and handling missing data
Apply appropriate decision making techniques to a specific case

Data Analysis for Improving Organizational Performance:
Organizational alignment around performance improvement requires effective leadership, communication, and visual tools to keep people engaged in the process and aware of progress updates. Organizations in both the public and private sectors often use tools and frameworks to support this kind of engagement. This course will explain some of these measures, describe the advantages and disadvantages of specific measurements and explain the relationship between assessment and strategy.
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Explain how performance measures are used in different settings
Differentiate among various organizational performance measurements
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of KPIs
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the Balanced Scorecard
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of a Net Promoter Score
Explain the relationship between performance assessment and organizational tactics and strategy
Assess the validity of performance measures for an organization based on a brief case study

Data Analysis in the Real World:
How are data-driven decisions put into practice in the real world? How do these decisions differ when applied to different sectors, such as health care, education and government? This course will provide answers to these questions as well as recommendations for decisions based on data analytics for each sector. The course will begin with an introduction of Big Data and its implications and each section, case studies will bring the concepts to life.
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Explain the management implications of the use of business intelligence and knowledge management systems
Define Big Data and describe its current uses for analysis and future potential and its implications
Explain common analytics for business and quality improvement
Recommend manufacturing business decisions based on data analytics
Explain common analytics used in health care
Recommend health care decisions based on data analytics
Explain common analytics used in education
Recommend educational decisions based in data analytics
Explain common analytics used in government
Recommend governmental decisions based on data analytics

Statistical Process Control:
When implemented with careful attention to collaborative data management and decision making, quality management can help deliver value and quality to customers and stakeholders. It can also enable data-driven decision making that helps organizations gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This course will introduce the basics of quality management, explaining the difference between quality control and quality assurance, providing methods for application of analysis, showing different applications of the Seven Basic Quality Tools. It all culminates in a brief case study, which illustrates the concepts covered.
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Describe principles that help guide quality management activities
Use the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle to coordinate work and implement change
Explain the differences between quality control and quality assurance
Create a SIPOC diagram to help visualize work as a process
Explain the role that metrics and statistics play in measuring and controlling work processes
Apply analysis and planning approaches to quality
Explain how the Seven Basic Quality Tools are used to monitor and control quality processes
Use the Seven Basic Quality Tools to process and sort non-numerical data
Use the Seven Basic Quality Tools in combination to create powerful plans and solutions to quality problems
Describe various quality management programs
Employ quality management tools based on a brief case study

Statistics as a Managerial Tool:
Today, instinct is not enough to manage the flood of available data and the complexities of the business world. Statistics helps today’s leaders make sense of these complexities, back-up their assertions, and feel confident about when to take the risks that lead to successful outcomes. This course examines statistics as a managerial tool. It also looks at common graphical representations of data and how these can be effective tools to explain situations and support persuasive arguments for a course of action.
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Describe how statistics are used in different settings
Describe common problems with, and misuse of, statistics
Identify criteria for evaluating statistics
Explain the key fundamentals of probability and their real-world application
Identify the fundamental concepts of descriptive statistics (populations and samples, measures of central tendency, measures of variability, measures of distribution) and their real-world application
Select appropriate graphic methods for displaying descriptive statistics
Explain the fundamental concepts of inferential statistics and their real-world application
Evaluate a scenario in order to determine the appropriate statistic to use
Apply fundamental statistics to a real-world situation
Evaluate the appropriateness of statistics used
Use statistics to identify the most appropriate decision alternative
Translate statistical data into a graphical presentation based on a brief case study

Tools of Data Analysis:
There are a number of statistical tools and techniques that are commonly used by organizations to inform decision making. These tools span numerous business functions and support many different objectives. This course describes, evaluates, and analyzes different statistical techniques and their real-world limitations and benefits. The course features crossover analysis, break-even analysis, cluster analysis, decision analysis as well as an introduction to regression.
After completing this module, you should be able to:
Evaluate the usefulness of different statistical techniques and their real-world application
Describe the various forecasting techniques and the benefits and limitations
Describe the various types of regression analysis and their real-world application
Analyze the results of a regression analysis
Describe common problems with multiple regression
Describe other statistical techniques and their real-world application
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of various statistical techniques
Choose a statistical technique based on a brief case study

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Course modules:
• Introduction to Data Analysis
• Tools of Data Analysis
• Data Analysis for Improving Organizational Performance
• Data Analysis in the Real World
• Statistical Process Control
• Statistics as a Managerial Tool

After completing this module, you should be able to:
• Use quantitative analysis and analytics in decision making
• Identify the fundamental concepts of measurement including levels of measurement, reliability and validity, errors, measurement and information bias
• Use techniques for ensuring accurate research design
• Use data management techniques including transforming data, recoding data, and handling missing data
• Create a graphical representation of descriptive statistics
• Use forecasting techniques and regression analysis
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of KPIs, Balanced Scorecard, and a Net Promoter Score
• Use the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle to coordinate work and implement change
• Use the Seven Basic Quality Tools to process and sort non-numerical data

All required reference materials are provided with this program. Technical requirements:

Internet Connection
• Broadband or High-Speed (DSL, Cable, Wireless)
Hardware Requirements
• Processor – 2GHz Processor or Higher
• Memory – 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended

Software Requirements
• Operating Systems – Windows 7, 8 or 10; Mac OS x 10 or higher
• Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 or 2013 or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
• Internet Browsers – Google Chrome is highly recommended
• Cookies MUST be enabled
• Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
• Adobe PDF Reader

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Program Description

Enroll through one of our accredited university or college partners today!

This suite is designed for adult learners who are interested in data analytics.

After completing this module, you should be able to: • Use quantitative analysis and analytics in decision making • Identify the fundamental concepts of measurement including levels of measurement, reliability and validity, errors, measurement and information bias • Use techniques for ensuring accurate research design • Use data management techniques including transforming data, recoding data, and handling missing data • Create a graphical representation of descriptive statistics • Use forecasting techniques and regression analysis • Understand the advantages and disadvantages of KPIs, Balanced Scorecard, and a Net Promoter Score • Use the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle to coordinate work and implement change • Use the Seven Basic Quality Tools to process and sort non-numerical data

This course provides students with qualified support professionals to guide them through their learning experience. The student support team is available to answer any questions a learner may have including questions on course content, course material, certifications, and registration or enrollment questions. Support advisers also monitor the progress of learners to ensure training retention and program advancement.

Though you are given a full 5 months to complete this program, the average time to completion is only 3 months!

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Many of our career training programs include certification vouchers. This means that at the successful completion of your course, at no additional charge, you will receive an exam voucher for the corresponding industry certification. This voucher will allow you to register and sit for the appropriate certification exam to obtain your industry credential.

Our online courses are open enrollment, so you can start immediately. If you are using any third-party funding to cover your course tuition, your start date may be a future date determined by your funding program.

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Upon successful completion of your course and fulfillment of any outstanding financial obligations, you will receive your certificate of completion. Certificates are provided to you within 30 days of completion. Your certificate will validate the training course you completed with a stamp of completion.

Students that successfully complete our career training programs are assigned a career development adviser who will coordinate placement at a local externship or hands on opportunity. These opportunities are optional and may vary based on availability and occupation. Your career development adviser will also provide job search services such as: resume building, mock interviews, job opportunity resources, and more. Our professional enrichment courses do not come with a career adviser or career services.