Data for Business Decision Makers Certificate

Issued by Northern Kentucky University

The earner of this certificate can communicate business-relevant implications of data analyses, craft questions to ensure analysis projects succeed, and design logical and structured analysis plans. The earner can use Excel functions to organize, query, and chart data; summarize data with pivot tables; analyze concepts and techniques for storytelling with data; and assemble a dashboard.

Type Learning
Level Foundational

Skills

Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Lookup Table
Microsoft Excel
Pivot Table
Storyboarding
Tableau

Earning Criteria

Completion of all assessments in four courses offered via Coursera, with an overall average of at least 73% in each course: Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere, Google; Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau, Duke University; Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel, Rice University; and Creating Dashboards and Storytelling with Tableau, University of California, Davis.