CIW Data Analyst

Discover the role of data analysis in business, all from the comfort of your own home! During this CIW Data Analyst course, you will explore the importance of good data, search engine optimisation, analysing and reporting data, and much more. With everything you need at the click of a button in your own personal online platform, you can learn whenever and wherever is most convenient to you. This course comes with live labs which gives you access to real computer equipment such as a computer, server switch or router for you to configure. What next? Following the successful completion of this course, you will be able to put your newfound knowledge into practice and develop your career. If after, you're looking to enhance your IT knowledge even further, take a look at the other IT and computer courses we offer. Jobs that require Microsoft Access knowledge:

• Business systems analyst
• Process analyst
• Systems analyst
• Enterprise analyst
• Data scientist
• Business intelligence analyst

Awarding body CIW, owned and managed by Certification Partners, is the world's premier vendor-neutral IT and web technology and education and certification programme. They have trained more than one million students and professionals, whilst also awarding more than 210,000 professional IT certificates, through universities, colleges, high schools, learning centres, and corporations worldwide. CIW have become the educational standard for web technology skills, adopted by academic institutions, governments, and businesses worldwide.  

Course Content

Fundamentals of data analysis

• Pre-assessment questions
• The importance of good data
• Centralised data benefits
• Structured vs. unstructured data
• Forgetting Steve Jobs
• Typical sources of business data
• Search engine optimisation
• Business decisions in the non-profit industry

Introduction to big data

• Big data
• The importance of IT data management
• IT business environments
• Cloud-based data
• Cloud-native data
• In-house data
• When to migrate to in-house data to the cloud
• Variations of cloud-based systems
• Typical databases used for data analysis
• Data-driven business decisions
• The internet is worthless

Working with data sources

• Data E-harmony
• Working with different departments to bring data together
• The purpose of customer relationship management (CRM)
• CRM integration
• A banking scenario
• Obtaining data from e-mail and user forums
• Obtaining data from other knowledge bases
• Obtaining data from CRM and business-to-business frameworks
• Transaction
• Payment and inventory data
• Using multiple data sources InStyle publishing

Tools for capturing and analysing data

• Capturing data: Tableau Public
• Capturing data: Google Fusion tables
• Capturing data: OpenRefine
• Overview: Hadoop-based environments
• Capturing and analysing data in Hadoop
• The R project
• Additional software for data capture
• Playing with big data

Analysing and reporting data

• Network traffic
• Organisational efforts and business outcomes
• Best methods to capture data and report specific data
• Data analysis and reporting dashboards
• Create reports and charts
• Create a presentation for reporting data
• Frequently asked questions for presentations
• Better business through data