DATA ANALYST SYLLABUS
1. Introduction to Data Analyst
• Types of Data
Qualitative/ Categorical
Quantitative/ Numerical
• Exploratory Data Analysis
Learn the Structure of the Data
Uncover Patterns or Errors
Find relationships and insights
• EDA Steps
o Data Preparation
Sources of Data
Data Collection
Data Cleaning and Wrangling
Data Sanity Check
o Data Exploration (Learn about each variable, Compute Summary Statistics, Find Correlation
and Trends, Visualize the data)
o Hypothesis Generation and Further analysis
• Metrics and Analysis
o Understanding different types of metric
o User journeys and investigating abnormal behaviours
• Data Exploration
o Frequency Distribution
o Measure of Central Tendency (Mean, Median, Mode)
o Measure of Dispersion (Variance and Standard Deviation)
o Z-score
• Data Visualization
o Types of Charts
o Selecting Charts
▪ By Use-Case
▪ By Data Types
o Styling Charts
o Explainability of the Chart
2. Data Preparation using Excel
• Introduction to Excel
• Formatting Cells
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Copy Paste in Excel
• Functions
• Filters
• Sorting
• Loading and Cleaning Data
o Gathering Raw Data
o Removing Duplicates
o Fill Options
o Data Validation
• Numerical Data Types
o Operators
o Range, Average, Count, Rounding
o Variance
o Summarising
• Handling Text Data Types
o Categorical Variables
o Cases and Spaces
o Cleaning Strings
• Working with Dates and TimeStamps
o Operators
o Aggregations
o Time Between
• Logical Functions
o AND, OR, NOT, IF
o Combining logical functions
o Aggregate Logical Functions
• Data Protection
o Protecting Sheets & Cells
3. Data Analysis & Visualisation Using Excel
• Summary Statistics
o Measure of Central Tendencies
o Range, Variance
• Referencing
o LOOKUP functions
o Index Match
• Summarising with Pivot tables
o Introduction to pivot tables
o Slicer, Multiple Pivot tables
• Data Visualisation
o Charts
o Formatting Charts
o Building Dashboards
• Using Pivot Tables
• What If-Analysis
o Scenario Analysis
o Sensitivity Analysis
o Growth Rate
o What-If Analysis in Excel
• Forecasting
o Seasonality
o Reducing Bias
o Confidence Intervals
o Moving Averages
o Weighted Averages
o Techniques in Excel
4. Data Analysis using SQL
• Introduction to Databases
• Difference between SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc
• Database Terminologies (Tables/ Relations, Record/Raws, Schema, Field, Unique Identifiers,
Primary Key, Relationships, Foreign Keys, Constraints)
• Overview of SQL (DDL, DML, Queries)
• Data Types (NULL, INTEGER, REAL, FLOT, NUMERIC, TEXT, CHAR / VARCHAR, BLOB)
• DDL (Create DB, Create Table, etc)
• Anatomy of a Query
• SELECT, FROM, WHERE Clause
• Aliasing
• Operators
o Relational Operators (<, <=,>,>=, +, < >, !=)
o Logical Operators (AND, OR, NOT)
o LIKE, BETWEEN
• GROUPBY, DISTINCT, HAVING Clause
• SORT, LIMIT
• Order of Queries
5. Advanced Data Analysis Using SQL
• Numerical Data Types
o Numeric Types, Operators
o Range, Average and Mean
o Variance, Rounding and Summarising
• Exploring Distributions
• Summarising
o Correlation function
o Median/Percentile Discrete and Continous
• Character Data Types
o Data Types, Categorical Variables
o Grouping, Counting and Ordering
o Cases and Spaces
o Searching in Strings, Trimming Spaces
o Splitting, Concatenating, Full Text Search
• Working with Dates and Timestamps
o Types and Formats
o Comparisons and Operations
o Components and Aggregation
o Aggregating with date/time series
o Time between Events
▪ Lead and Log
▪ Average time between events
▪ Change in time series
• Working with Arrays
o Arrays in PostgreSQL (CREATE, INSERT etc)
o Accessing Arrays
o Searching Arrays
o Array Functions and Operators
6. Data Manipulation with SQL
• Joins and Set Operations
o Relationships between Tables
o Inner Joins
o Outer Joins
o Joins on Join
o Cross Joins
o Self Joins
o Equi and Non Equi Joins
o Set Operators
• Data Manipulation Techniques
o Case Statements
o Subqueries
o Correlated Subqueries
o Nested Subqueries
o Common Table Expression
o Window Functions
7. Database Design with SQL
• Introduction to OLTP and OLAP
• Storing Data
o Types of Data
o Data Warehouses
o Data Lakes
o ETL and ELT
• Data Modelling and Schema Design
o Conceptual Data Model
o Logical Data Model
o Physical Data Model
• Dimension Modelling
o Fact Tables, Dimension Tables
o Star Schema
o Snowflake Schema
• Normalization and Denormalization
• Database Views
• Scalability
o Partitioning (Vertical Partitioning, Horizontal Partitioning)
o Sharding
• Data Integration
o Data Sources, Transformation, Unified Data Model
o Update Cadence
o ETL
8. Introduction to Data Visualisation
• Data Visualisation
o Why is visualisation important?
o Visualisation Framework
o Chart Types
o Trend Visualisation
o Tips and Tricks for Visualisation
• Data Story Telling
o What is Data Storytelling?
o Biases- When do they appear?
o Biases- Formal Terminology
9. Data Preparation & Exploration with Tableau
• Introduction to Tableau
• Loading Data in Tableau
o Data Sources and Loading Data Types
o Joins and Relationships
o Fields in Data and their types
o Dimensions of Measures
o Data Roles
o Navigating UI elements
• Combining Data
o Unions, Joins, Relationships
• Filtering and Sorting
o Types of filters
o Filtering on Dimensions, Measures
o Sorting and Filtering through Selections
• Aggregation
o Aggregating Measures
o Aggregating Dimensions
o Scatter Plot and Aggregations
• Calculated Fields and Table Calculations
o Functions/ Operators
o Formatting Numbers
o Type Conversions
o Level of Details Expression (LOD)
o Table Calculations
10. Data Visualisation
• Chart Types with Tableau
• Exploratory Analysis using Visualisation of Trends
o Reference Lines, Trend Lines and Forecasting
o BarCharts and Line Charts for discrete and continuous data
o Discrete Time Analysis
o Quick Tables
o Formatting through Colours
o Bubble Chart
• Mapping your Data
o Geographic Data Types
o Geocoding
o Creating Maps
• Dashboards and Stories
o Introduction to Dashboards
o Introduction to Stories (Story Points,etc)
o Creating Dashboards and Stories
o Building a KPI Dashboard
o Updating the Tooltip
• Analysis
o Seasonality Analysis
o YoY Analysis
o YTD Calculation
o Calculating Growth
o CAGR Analysis
o Moving Rolling Calculations
o Cohort Analysis
11. Essentials of Python for Data Analysis
• Python Environment setup
• Python Data Types
o Variables
o Python is Dynamically Typed
o Rules for Naming variables and Naming Conventions
o Overview of Python Data Types
▪ Numeric
▪ Sequence
▪ Set
▪ Dictionary
o Literals or constants
o Type Conversion
• Operators and Expression
o Arithmetic Operators
o Expressions
o Operator Precedence
o Arithmetic Operators on All Data Types
o Assignment Operators
o Relational Operator
o Logical Operators
o Boolean
o Special Operators
o Mathematical
• Conditional Statements
• Loops & Control Flow
• String
• Lists
• Tuple
12. Advanced Data Analysis using Python
• NumPy
o Introduction to NumPy and importing NumPy
o Array Creation
o NumPy Attributes
o Creating Different Types of Arrays
o Accessing elements of an Array
o NumPy Slicing
o Reshaping & Flattening an Array
o Data Types in NumPy
o Operators
o Data Analysis using NumPy
• Pandas
o Datasets in Python
o DataFrame
o Accessing Data
o Filtering
o Traversing Data Frame
o Sorting
o Merging-Data/ Joins in Pandas
▪ Inner Joins
▪ Outer Joins
▪ Self Joins
▪ Merging on indexes
▪ Filtering Joins
• Concatenating Data Vertically
• Data Integrity Check
• Reshaping Data
13. Data Visualisation using Python
• Visualisation
o Introduction to MatPlotlib
o Line Plots, Scatter Plots, Histograms, BarPlots and Vertical BarPlots
o Customising Plots
o Introduction to SeaBorn
o Relational Plots and SubPlots
o Customising Scatter Plots
• EDA Using Pandas
o Feature Engineering
o Summary Statistics
o Data Validation and Cleanup
o Group Summary Statistics
o Pivot Tables
o Explicit Indexes
o Checking for Missing Values
o Handling Outliers
o Patterns over date time
o Correlation
o Updating CSV Files
14. Interview Prep & Portfolio Building
• Data Analysis Process Interview questions
• Technical interview questions
• SQL interview questions
• Building your resume
• Building your data Portfolio
• Graduation Test & Projects
BONUS CONTENT
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
• Z-core
• Central Limit Theorem, p-value
• Hypothesis testing
• Power Analysis
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