Data Literacy Micro Credential Program
Help your employees learn to use data to make decisions, make sense of the world, and prepare for the future. These customizable courses can be taught to your employees in groups of up to 27 students at once.
Data literacy equips people with the knowledge and resources needed to make informed decisions and to solve problems. The Data Literacy Micro-Credential is focused on practical knowledge that will help your employees gain data literacy skills. These skills increase your value to any organization. They also may be critical to future positions as even roles in totally separate areas of many organizations require a basic understanding of how to interact with and make decisions based on data.
Your organization can purchase one or all of these courses. Each course offers an in-person lab where you will gain hands-on experience from local data experts. Each course consists of about three hours of pre-work (e.g. videos, readings) and a three-hour lab. Completing any one of these courses results in a Digital Badge endorsed by UNO. Completing the entire program results in all three badges and a Certificate in Data Literacy.
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Individual Classes
Introductory Statistics with Excel and Power Query
In this class, we introduce a powerful tool to extract and transform data: Power Query. Power Query allows you to extract data from numerous data sources, transform that data, and load the appropriate data into your application (e.g. Excel). Using this data, we will show you how to implement various statistical tests in Excel and what they mean for your business.
Introductory SQL and Power Query
Businesses often house their data in databases. In this class we show you how to transform this data using a language common to databases: Structured Query Language (SQL). This language can be used in combination with Power Query to refine your dataset for analysis. You will learn how to use SQL and Power Query to build data models in business intelligence tools like Power BI.
Introductory Business Intelligence with Power BI
Businesses need insights from their data. In the first two classes, you learned how to prepare your data for analysis and perform some statistical analysis. In this class, you will create visual reports and dashboards in Power BI using this data. These reports will generate insights to improve decision making in your business.