Data Fundamentals

Begin your program with an immersion experience. This is where you’ll first practice essential business skills to prepare for the program and assess your readiness on commonly used concepts and tools for industry and career preparation. You’ll begin to develop communication and teamwork skills, reflect on your personal journey, and build a strong foundation for your ongoing success.

Effective communication enables leaders to grow their impact in the world as part of a global community. In Communicating with Impact, you will learn to use storytelling as a powerful communication tool to inform, engage, motivate and inspire others. You will also develop presentation skills for success in business environments by learning how to create and deliver a clear, concise, and compelling pitch.

Here is where you’ll analyze complex business scenarios and create a data model. You’ll be introduced to SQL syntax and review the rules for constructing valid SQL statements.

This course emphasizes statistics to solve business problems. You’ll explore descriptive statistics, probability and random variables with emphasis on inferential statistics. You’ll also cover hypothesis testing and regression analysis.

Financial analysts are increasingly accessing internal and external databases to formulate recommendations based on data analysis. This course will cover extraction of data using SQL and analysis using Excel and Tableau.

Business decisions need data. In order for you to unearth those decisions, you need to know how to manage data in a relational database system and translate it into purposeful information. In this course, you’ll evaluate relational databases and methodologies as well as developing basic applied proficiency in SQL.

As an analyst, you're expected to interpret meaning from messy data using statistics, programming, and domain knowledge. This course will help you learn the tools and techniques required to derive meaning from large datasets using Python as a foundation and applying statistical methods. You'll also learn programming design principles.

Put all your newly acquired knowledge and skills directly into practice at the end of each block through a practical and relevant business challenge. Teams will draw on the content and themes of previous courses in each block to complete challenges involving simulations, executive pitch presentations, innovation hackathons, real company challenges, designing new business models, etc.