Coursera courses

  • Coursera: paid online courses

  • Enroll in a course and elect to audit the course for free

  • Guided projects are not available to audit

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects

  • Test preparation

  • Learning to learn

  • Pomodoro technique

  • Meta learning


Databases and SQL for Data Science

  • Introduction to databases and basic SQL

  • Advanced SQL

  • Accessing databases using Python


Managing Big Data with MySQL

  • Understanding relational databases

  • Queries to extract data from single tables

  • Queries to summarize groups of data from multiple tables

  • Queries to address more details business operations


Communicating Business Analytics Results

  • Analytical techniques applied to business problems

  • Best practices in data visualization

  • Interpreting, telling and selling

  • Acting on data


Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel

  • Introduction to spreadsheets

  • Spreadsheet functions to organize data

  • Introduction to filtering, pivot tables and charts

  • Advanced graphing and charting


Problem Solving with Excel

  • Overview of Excel

  • vLookups and data cleansing

  • Logical functions & pivot tables

  • More advanced formulas


Data Visualization with Advanced Excel

  • Preparing a professional Excel

  • Advanced scenario analysis

  • Data visualization

  • Dashboarding