Data Analytics for Business Decisions
Excel, SQL, Python, and statistics - one decision-ready toolkit.
Free to watch. Starting adds a personal copy to My Learning with progress tracking and a curated-path certificate on completion.
About this path
The full analyst toolchain in one path: Excel foundations and pivot tables, SQL from your first query to joins, pandas for programmatic analysis, and the statistics that separate signal from noise. Four tools, one goal: decisions you can defend.
What you'll learn
- Build decision-ready reports with Excel pivot tables
- Query and join data confidently in SQL
- Analyze datasets programmatically with pandas
- Interpret distributions and histograms like a statistician
The path, module by module
Each step is lifted from a full course in our catalog, and where a course repeats itself we keep only the lessons that earn their place.
Module 1 · from Microsoft Excel Full Course
Clean Data In
Data types, entering data properly, and sorting, filtering, and tables. Most bad analysis starts as bad data entry.
3 lessons · 1h 27m · hand-picked from 8
1.5 Top 5 Excel Data Types You Must Know! | Microsoft Excel Tutorial · 1.6 Excel for Beginners: How to Enter & Edit Data in Simple Steps! 🚀 · Section 6: Master Sorting, Filters, Tables & Advanced Excel Techniques | Excel Tips & Tricks
Module 2 · from Microsoft Excel Full Course
Pivot Reporting
Pivot tables, charts, slicers, and grouped auto-reports. The Excel that answers a business question.
5 lessons · 1h 0m · hand-picked from 8
8.1 Data Analysis in Excel Why Every Department Needs This Skill! · 8.2 Create Pivot Table in Excel in Just 3 Clicks! · 8.3 How to Create Pivot Charts in Excel? | Excel Tutorial For Beginners
Module 3 · from SQL Course for Beginners
Query the Source
How SQL and databases work, then SELECT, ORDER BY, and WHERE. Straight past the install-and-tour lessons.
6 lessons · 40m · hand-picked from 8
Introduction to SQL - How SQL Works? - SQL Tutorial #1 · How Databases Organize Data? - SQL Tutorial #3 · Types of SQL Commands (DDL, DQL, DML, DCL, TCL) - SQL Tutorial #5
Module 4 · from SQL Course for Beginners
Joins, Grouping, Aggregates
Where SQL earns its keep: combining tables and summarising them.
6 lessons · 44m · hand-picked from 8
SQL JOINS Explained - Concept of Combining Data - SQL Tutorial #20 · SQL INNER JOIN - SQL Tutorial #22 · SQL LEFT JOIN - SQL Tutorial #23
Module 5 · from Pandas for Data Analysis
When the Spreadsheet Runs Out
DataFrames, loading files, missing data, groupby, and pivot tables. Skips the six-lesson time-series detour.
6 lessons · 1h 41m · hand-picked from 8
Python Pandas Tutorial 1. What is Pandas python? Introduction and Installation · Python Pandas Tutorial 2: Dataframe Basics · Python Pandas Tutorial 4: Read Write Excel CSV File
Module 6 · from Statistics Fundamentals
Statistics That Change a Decision
Distributions, variance, hypothesis testing, p-values, and confidence intervals. StatQuest at its clearest.
6 lessons · 56m · hand-picked from 8
StatQuest: Histograms, Clearly Explained · The Normal Distribution, Clearly Explained!!! · Calculating the Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation, Clearly Explained!!!