Programme information
Developed in collaboration with Tableau, this course offers a learning pathway for those seeking data analyst and business analytics roles. It’s also suited for professionals across various sectors who increasingly rely on data analysis. This includes marketing professionals evaluating large campaign data sets, as well as policy or healthcare professionals assessing the efficacy of different policy approaches.
Gain an understanding of advanced business problem-solving through data analysis, visualisation, and business communication. You will use the leading BI platform Tableau to create interactive visualisations for key business functions, combining them into operational dashboards that drive insights and decisions. Your final project focuses on visualising operational information on a dashboard to make recommendations based on defined business priorities.
Develop your skills, knowledge
and abilities in:
- Evaluating strategic priorities to support the implementation of dashboards and increase the level of organisational data-driven decision-making.
- Creating and interpreting visualisations to influence future organisational requirements.
- Demonstrating the capability to make data-driven decisions.
- Recognising and addressing the ethical and social issues of applying data analytics techniques within specific organisational contexts.
- Reflecting on and justifying the approach taken in accessible dashboard creation.
And cultivate the professional competencies to work in a high-demand field
- A post-Covid 19 analysis by Microsoft, leveraging LinkedIn data, projects an additional capacity of 20m+ jobs in data analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning globally by 2025.
- Job postings seeking data visualisation skills have grown by 540% over the last five years, with specific demand for Tableau skills rising by 1,165%.
- The 2020 World Economic Forum Jobs Report identified “critical thinking and analysis” as the skill group with the highest increasing employer demand and highlighted “analytical thinking and innovation” as the most important skill for 2025.
