Online Course – Certified Professional Specialization in BI Essentials for Finance Analysts (Tableau Edition) by Corporate Finance Institute

BI Skills for Financial Analysts (Tableau Edition). Learn the most in-demand skills to help you work with, leverage, and visualize data, including Tableau and SQL, and use them in a student case environment.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Improving data analysis skills
  • Manipulating and transforming data using Tableau
  • Visualizing data using Tableau
  • Extracting data from a database using SQL
  • Conducting a case study to evaluate sales performance
  • Practice skills in Tableau Fundamentals
  • Restore graphs, charts, and dashboard functions
  • Using a dashboard to answer questions
  • Imaging scenarios under real conditions

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Data Analyst
  • Business Analyst
  • Information Systems Analyst
  • Data Visualization Expert
  • BI developer
  • Data analyst with SQL
  • Data Project Manager
  • Data Consultant
  • Data Report Developer
  • Sales Manager with Data Analysis Skills

Internship – Series of 3 courses

This specialization helps analysts improve their data analysis skills by learning how to manipulate, transform, and present data using Tableau, one of the most popular data visualization tools. Analysts will also learn how to pull data from a database using SQL.

Hands-on Learning Project

The internship culminates in a case study evaluating the sales performance of an e-commerce company. Students will practice all the skills they learned in Tableau Fundamentals, and recreate all the most common graphs, charts, and dashboard functions.

Students will need to use their dashboard to answer questions and simulate a scenario under real-world conditions.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Tableau Basics

Course 1 – 5 hours

What you will learn:

  • Creating interactive visualizations in Tableau.
  • Data preparation and management before calculations.
  • Applying skills in practical examples.
  • Create interactive dashboards with meaningful stories.

By completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Import, modify, and combine data from different tables.
  • Utilize basic and tabular calculations.
  • Create common visualizations with interactive features.
  • Create interactive dashboards.
  • Use simple tricks to improve your professional appearance.

The course is ideal for professionals with a good understanding of data analysis who are looking to expand their skills.

SQL Basics for Data Analysts

Course 2 – 5 hours

What you will learn:

  • The basic syntax of SQL.
  • Read-only functions for data analyst.
  • Basics of sorting, filtering, and aggregation of data.
  • Practical exercises with real scenarios.

Tableau Fundamentals Case Study – Ecommerce Analytics

Course 3 – 3 hours

What you will learn:

  • Building visualizations and dashboards in Tableau.
  • Creating a data model and implementing designs.
  • Adding interactivity to a dashboard.
  • Answered business questions related to e-commerce.

This case study is great for those who want to apply their knowledge of Tableau to real-life scenarios.