Data Analytics Begins With Me

"Basic data analytics taught with a simple but powerful graphical user interface (GUI) drag-and-drop tool targeted at business analysts requires more sophisticated capabilities than what a spreadsheet can offer. Understanding and using data is increasingly an important part of an executive function. Whether you are a business analyst, customer service officer, physiotherapist, procurement officer or HR executive – the ability to understand where potential data is coming from, and to properly collect, clean, and analyse it, will be an important and critical skill. This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to participate in the organisation’s data analytics process without any coding requirements. It will cover basic concepts of data analysis, processing of data, and visualisation of raw data and processed data to gain insights, followed by building simple models for classification and prediction. Participants will also learn to use the free and open source data analytics tool, Orange, a powerful and popular Python-based data analytics tool. Orange has a point-click-drag-and-drop GUI, no programming knowledge is required. At the end of the course, participants will be able to: • Understand the data analytics end-to-end workflow • Identify where the potential sources of data can come from • Use a GUI-based analytics tool to process, clean and prepare data for analysis • Perform basic analysis such as classification and predictions • Select the most appropriate analytics model to use for a specific task "