Data Literacy: Exploring and Visualizing Data Specialization

Start Your Data Literacy Journey Today. Build knowledge and skills to explore and visualize data in your professional and everyday life.

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4 course series

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4.9

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1 month at 10 hours a week

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4 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.9

(12 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule

1 month at 10 hours a week

Earn a career credential

Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

This Specialization provides an introduction to data literacy knowledge and helps learners build practical skills to explore and visualize data. Using real-world applications, the Specialization starts by building a foundational understanding of data and teaches learners to prepare, explore, analyze, visualize, and communicate data. New to analyzing data? This Specialization is for you, focusing on practical understanding while avoiding complicated statistical terminology.

Applied Learning Project

Through the SAS Data Literacy: Exploring and Visualizing Data Specialization, you get access to hands-on projects that are built into the course work. Examples of projects include Visual Analytics Methodology, Preparing Data Using SAS Data Studio, Analyzing Data with SAS Visual Analytics, and Designing Reports with SAS Visual Analytics.

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Taught in English

33 practice exercises

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Specialization - 4 course series

Data Literacy Essentials

Course 11 hour4.5 (11 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

In this course, you learn the foundational knowledge and skills you need to engage with data in meaningful ways. This is an introductory data literacy course, starting with the basics: what is data, what does it mean to be data literate, and why is it important in today’s world. You will build data skills by following the journeys of a concerned parent, a small business owner, and a public health expert, all of whom rely on data to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of this course, you will be able to see the utility and interrogate the reliability of data, discover meaning in data by looking for patterns and trends, use data insights to make informed decisions, communicate data insights to others, and understand how bias impacts your work with data. If you are new to analyzing data, this course is for you. The focus in this course is on practical understanding while avoiding complicated statistical terminology to help you feel supported and encouraged throughout the process. Anybody can be successful in this course regardless or background.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making

Category: Data Ethics

Category: Data Literacy

Category: Diversity Awareness

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Storytelling

Category: Data Visualization Software

Category: Trend Analysis

Category: Data Quality

Data Literacy in Practice

Course 21 hourView course

What you'll learn

In this course, you learn practical skills to explore and visualize data. You will follow a small business owner's data-driven journey to improve company performance to gain skills to prepare data, conduct analysis, and share insights using data visualizations. By the end of this course, you will be able to prepare data and conduct exploratory analysis, investigate relationships in the data by using visualizations, and communicate findings. If you are new to analyzing data, this course is for you. The focus in this course is on practical understanding while avoiding complicated statistical terminology to help you feel supported and encouraged throughout the process. Anybody can be successful in this course regardless or background.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Cleansing

Category: Exploratory Data Analysis

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Storytelling

Category: Data Literacy

Category: Data Presentation

Getting Started with SAS Visual Analytics

Course 35 hours4.7 (885 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Quality

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Data Cleansing

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Business Reporting

Category: Data Visualization

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Exploratory Data Analysis

Category: Business Analysis

Category: Data Access

Category: Virtual Environment

Data Analysis and Reporting in SAS Visual Analytics

Course 48 hours4.8 (358 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Visualization Software

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Trend Analysis

Category: Data Visualization

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Interactive Data Visualization

Category: Analysis

Category: Data Presentation

Category: Analytics

Category: Business Reporting

Category: Data Manipulation

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Emily Pressman

SAS

2 Courses1,177 learners

Nicole Ball

SAS

5 Courses36,328 learners

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