Essential Data Skills for Professionals

In this interactive, practical workshop participants learn how people make decisions using data, the language of data and how to apply a simple, structured process that shows you how to answer questions or make decisions with data.

Participants will also learn to ask business-relevant data questions, obtain relevant data, make sense of the data, draw conclusions supported by data and present results to stakeholders in a way that promotes action.

Suitability

This course is intended for people working in non-data specialist roles who are interested in developing their data skills and capabilities.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

Describe key terms related to data analysis and making decisions with data
Explain why people should use data to improve decision making
Use the using the data-driven decision-making workflow to apply a structured process to answer questions and/or make decisions
Have an informed conversation with data professionals in your organisation about key data and data analysis topics

Course Agenda

Module 1 – Understanding Data & Decision Making

Decision Making
How people making decisions with data
Introduction to decision-making biases
How to minimise decision-making biases
Overview of the data-driven decision-making workflow
Asking the Right Question
How to define a question to answer with data
How write a relevant, unambiguous worthwhile question?
Group activity – Define the data-driven question

Module 2

Acquire Suitable Data
Introduction to data terms, sources and formats
Evaluate, clean and integrate data
Group activity – Identify data sources for a data-driven question
Understand the Data
Understand data using exploratory analysis
Choose the right type of analysis
Correlation versus causation
Group activity – Identify types of analysis for a data-driven question
Act on the Analysis
Interpret the insights to choose the best outcome
Prepare the results with data visualisation
Communicate the outcome with storytelling
Make and implement the decision
Group activity – Identify how to communicate the answer to a data-driven question

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