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Certificate in Data Analytics

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. Each course in this certificate 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.

Courses included in this certificate program are listed at the bottom of this page.

Key Features

  • Expert-supported
  • Mobile-friendly
  • Accessible
  • Badge and credit-awarding
  • Games & Flashcards
  • Video content
  • Real-world case studies
  • Audio-enabled in app

Refund Policy
You may request a refund up to 5 days from the purchase date. The registration fee will only be refunded if less than 10% of each course in the certificate has been completed. Completion percentage can be viewed on the Course Progress page from within the course.

Notes
All courses in this certificate have an "Ask the Expert" feature, which submits your questions directly to an expert in the field you are studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours.

This course does not require any additional purchases of supplementary materials.

Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive IACET CEU credit. Learners will have three attempts at all graded assessments.

Courses included in this suite:

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

ata Analysis for Improving Organizational Performance

When using data analysis to improve organizational performance, it's vital to employ the tools that bring the data to life and keep people engaged in the process. Organizations in both the public and private sectors often use tools and frameworks to deliver the data, and the information the data might suggest, to its staff. This intermediate-level course will explain some of these measures and tools, describe some specific measurements, and explain the relationship between assessment and strategy. Summarizing the data with the correct tool can be the gating factor to reaching staff and effecting changes that spur performance improvement.

  • Dates: Open enrollment
  • Duration: 90 days
  • Time: 5 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs:.5 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs | 5 HRCIs | 5 PDUs
    HRCI Credits: 5
    Type: Specified - Strategic Business
    Total (ISC)2 CPEs: 5
    Group A: 0
    Group B: 5
    Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 5
    Strategic & Business Management: 3
    Technical: 2
    IACET CEUs: .5
  • Code:01-PRO-BUS-ON

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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 intermediate-level course will provide answers to these questions as well as recommendations for decision-making based on data analytics for each sector. The course will begin with an introduction of Big Data, then continue into a deeper dive on its implications within each sector. Industry case studies make the concepts applicable in the real-world.

  • Dates: Open enrollment
  • Duration: 90 days
  • Time: 5 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs: .5 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs | 5 HRCIs
    HRCI Credits: 5
    Type: Specified - Strategic Business
    Total (ISC)2 CPEs: 5
    Group A: 0
    Group B: 5
    IACET CEUs: .5
  • Code:01-PRO-BUS-ON

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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 data quality can affect decision making. Since quantitative analytics is used in various settings, this intermediate-level course also offers insight into how research is used in different sectors. From a management perspective, the course highlights appropriate quantitative methods and ways to ensure quality and accuracy through research design.

  • Dates: Open enrollment
  • Duration: 90 days
  • Time: 5 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs: .5 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs | 5 HRCIs | 5 PDUs
    HRCI Credits: 5
    Type: Specified - Strategic Business
    Total (ISC)2 CPEs: 5
    Group A: 0
    Group B: 5
    Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 5
    Leadership: 2
    Strategic & Business Management: 1
    Technical: 2
    IACET CEUs: .5
  • Code:01-PRO-BUS-ON

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Statistical Process Control

Statistical Process Control is all about boosting quality. Quality management can not only deliver value to customers and stakeholders, it can also enable data-driven decision making that helps organizations gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This intermediate-level 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.

  • Dates: Open enrollment
  • Duration: 90 days
  • Time: 5 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs:.5 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs | 5 HRCIs | 5 PDUs
    HRCI Credits: 5
    Type: Specified - Strategic Business
    Total (ISC)2 CPEs: 5
    Group A: 0
    Group B: 5
    Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 5
    Leadership: 2.5
    Strategic & Business Management: 0.5
    Technical: 2
    IACET CEUs: .5
  • Code:01-PRO-BUS-ON

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Statistics as a Managerial Tool

Managing today can require good instincts. However, instinct is not enough to manage the huge amounts of available data and the complex variables of the business world. Statistics can help managers and leaders make sense of these complexities, back-up their assertions, and feel confident about when to take the risks and when to pump the breaks. This intermediate-level 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.

  • Dates: Open enrollment
  • Duration: 90 days
  • Time: 5 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs:.5 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs | 5 HRCIs | 5 PDUs
    HRCI Credits: 5
    Type: Specified - Strategic Business
    Total (ISC)2 CPEs: 5
    Group A: 0
    Group B: 5
    Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 5
    Leadership: 1
    Strategic & Business Management: 2.5
    Technical: 1.5
    IACET CEUs: .5
  • Code:01-PRO-BUS-ON

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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 intermediate-level 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 tree analysis as well as an introduction to regression.

  • Dates: Open enrollment
  • Duration: 90 days
  • Time: 5 hours
  • Location: Online
  • Course Fee: $79.00 USD
  • CEUs:.5 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs | 5 HRCIs | 5 PDUs
    HRCI Credits: 5
    Type: Specified - Strategic Business
    Total (ISC)2 CPEs: 5
    Group A: 0
    Group B: 5
    Total PMI PDUs/Contact Hours: 5
    Leadership: 1.5
    Strategic & Business Management: 1
    Technical: 2.5
    IACET CEUs: .5
  • Code:01-PRO-BUS-ON

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