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Data Analytics:
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Course overview
The demand for data analytics skills has risen
sharply, with LinkedIn reporting a massive
650% surge in Data Analytics and Data CO U RS E S N A PS H OT:
Science roles since 2012. This upward trend
is expected to continue, with the number of M E T H O D O F ST U DY
roles in Australia set to grow a further 28% by
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OU TCO M E S- F OCUSSED CUR R ICULUM
2 x weekly live sessions
Academy Xi has leveraged curriculum from
New York based tech education provider, T I M E CO M M I T M E N T
Flatiron School, to bring you this Data
Analytics course. 15-20 hours per week
for 15 weeks
Flatiron School has an impressive track record
of delivering quality education for 8+ years. 225+ hours of learning
They have successfully graduated over 2,500
students and have won multiple awards for CO U RS E CO N T E N T
their proprietary tech education programs.
Python Programming,
With curriculum built by Flatiron School, Visualisation, SQL, Exploratory
the Data Analytics: Transform course from and Inferential Data Analysis,
Academy Xi is designed to completely Regression Data Modelling
transform your career, teaching in-demand
practical skills that will enable you to land a
CO U RS E O U TCO M E S
job in data analytics.
Hands-on coding & analytics
J O B - R E A DY DATA A N A LYT ICS SKILLS
skills
• Python programming
Three projects and weekly
• Data visualisation coding exercises
• Web scraping and APIs A shareable portfolio using
• SQL
Jupyter Notebooks & GitHub

• Exploratory and inferential data analysis Industry showcase &

networking
• Regression data modelling
Career support program
By the end of this course, you will get hands-
on analytics experience and walk away with An industry-recognised digital
a portfolio of your project work. On top of credential
this industry-aligned curriculum delivered
via a sophisticated learning platform, you’ll L E V E L O F ST U DY Page 2
get learning support from local Mentors with
a wealth of industry experience and career No prerequisites - beginner
support from our Australia-based Career friendly
Support Team.
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What is Data
Analytics?
Data analytics is the process of collecting,
organising, cleaning and analysing raw data
in order to draw conclusions and create
meaningful solutions. In short, it’s about
making sense of data to make informed, real-
life decisions.
Data analysts sit at the intersection of
business, technology and statistics. With
the primary goal of increasing efficiency
and improving performance, data analysts
discover patterns in data and make
recommendations.
There are 4 main types of data analytics:
Descriptive Analysis (what happened),
Diagnostic Analysis (why it happened),
Predictive Analysis (what should happen) and
Prescriptive Analysis (what should be done).
These analyses are interrelated and build on
each other.
By applying these powerful techniques, data
analysts create positive business outcomes.
More accurate reporting and planning,
increased customer base, leaner processes,
improved operational efficiency, higher
customer satisfaction, increased revenue or
reduced costs, are just some of the benefits of
data analytics.
You’ll learn vital analytics skills including
python programming, visualisation, SQL,
regression modelling and web scraping.
Armed with these technical skills, you’ll
quickly dive in and collect, clean and
organise data, translate it into actionable
insights, make inferences and drive business
results. You’ll get the opportunity to base
your final capstone project on any subject
you like, giving you creative ownership
and practical outcomes you can use in the
workplace.
You’ll gain so much more than coding skills:
you’ll learn to speak the language of data.
By writing and maintaining a technical blog,
you will solidify your own understanding,
while developing your personal brand
and participating in the data community.
Showcase your newly acquired skills
via GitHub, your portfolio of real-world
analytics projects to impress potential
employers. Work with our Career Support
Team to prepare for technical interviews
and land a role.
All of this will teach you to think and work
like a well-rounded Data Analyst.

Why choose
this course?
This course is perfect for anyone wanting to
start a highly sought-after Data Analytics
career.
2,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of
data are generated each day across all
industries.
With an almost limitless amount of raw data at
our fingertips, it’s up to data analysts and data
scientists to extract meaningful information
from it. If you’re ready to make sense of data
and unleash its true potential, this course is for
you.
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Why study with us
I N D U ST RY L E A D I N G
CU R R I CU L U M
This course has been created by
experienced learning designers,
in partnership with industry
practitioners. We update the
curriculum regularly based on
feedback from students, employers
and subject matter experts,
ensuring content stays relevant in a
fast-changing industry.
B E CO M E A DATA A N A LYST
Increase your employment
prospects with job-ready data
analytics skills. Use Python
programming to manipulate,
analyse, and visualise data.
Communicate with databases
using SQL, and make inferences or
predictions using regression models.
H A N DS- O N CO D I N G
P R ACT I CE
Implement practical training from
the get go, with 50% of your time
spent coding. In addition to weekly
lab exercises, you’ll work on three
different data analytics projects of
varying complexity.
B U I L D YO U R G I T H U B P RO F I L E
Complete your projects and labs
in Jupyter Notebooks, a powerful
tool for interactively developing,
narrating and presenting data
projects. Display your new skills
through your personal GitHub
profile, created as you progress
through the course, demonstrating
your practical skills to future
employers.
P E RS O N A L IS E D CA R E E R
S U P P O RT
Get job-ready and land your dream
role, like a whopping 100% of our
graduates1. Over 24 weeks, our Career
Support team will work with you to
strengthen your CV and online brand,
prepare for technical interviews,
search for job opportunities and much
more.
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-as of October 2021, rolling 3-month average.
I N D U ST RY S H OWCAS E
End your course with a
comprehensive solo project that
brings together all your learning.
Put your coding skills to work on
a real-world scenario project,
then showcase your solution to
guest industry professionals. You’ll
not only receive feedback from
a panel of experts, but also the
chance to network and expand
your connections in the data
world.
S U P P O RT E D BY I N D U ST RY
E X P E RTS
Your course mentor is a seasoned
practitioner with extensive
experience in data analytics, as
well as teaching. You’ll meet your
mentor twice a week through live
video sessions for group discussions
and Q&A.
UNLIMITED 1:1 MENTOR
SUPPORT
Get access to 1:1 sessions with your
Mentor to receive personalised
feedback and specific guidance as
you progress through the course.
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R O B U ST L E A R N I N G
P L AT F O R M
Your learning is supported by
Canvas, the world’s most popular
and easy-to-use learning platform.
Use the platform to access your
readings and other course content,
and smoothly toggle between
Canvas and Jupyter to complete
your weekly coding exercises.
N E T WO R K O F H I R I N G
M A N AG E RS
Lots of fantastic brands are looking
to hire graduates just like you...
And we’ve got the community to
connect you with them, helping you
land your dream job.
I N D U ST RY- R E CO G N IS E D
C E RT I F I C AT E
Receive a Certificate of Completion
as official recognition of your
knowledge and practical skills
in Data Analytics. Our courses
are trusted by organisations and
recruiters across Australia, so
adding this credential to your CV
and LinkedIn profile can greatly
boost your career prospects.
CO H O RT- B AS E D
Never feel like you’re studying
alone. Start and progress through
the course at the same pace as all
other students. Regularly interact
with your mentor and classmates
via Zoom, Slack and Q&A forums to
discuss current topics and work in
groups on projects, replicating the
collaborative approach required in
the workplace.
A LU M N I B E N E F I TS
Get access to our alumni-exclusive
events and Slack channel with
job offers, career guidance and
networking opportunities. Receive
discounts on your future Academy
Xi courses and a credit when you
refer a friend.
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Who is this Potential
course for? career outcomes
This course is suitable for anyone looking to Graduates of this course and our Career
break into the data/ tech industry. If you are Support Program can expect to land junior
detail-oriented, analytical and have an interest to mid-level analytics roles, including but
in transforming data to insights, this is the not limited to:
career change for you.
• Data Analyst
Those interested in this course may include:
• Data Administrator
• Anyone who wants to work with data daily
• Data Engineer
in their next or current role
• Business Analyst
• Career changers who are currently working
in an unrelated field and want to future
proof their careers with in-demand skills
• People re-entering the workforce after a
break and looking to retrain
• Junior analysts or others working with large
amounts of data in spreadsheets, who
want to level up and learn powerful tools
that make the job easier and secure you a
promotion

Learning outcomes

Our Data Analytics curriculum will prepare you

to use descriptive statistics and basic models
to generate insights about data. This program
is designed to help you develop the skills you
need for a career as a data analyst, data
engineer, or business intelligence analyst. By
the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Execute the full data analysis process, from
identifying useful data to deployment of
data products
• Communicate about the results within
and outside the organisation via writing,
visualisation, and live presentation
• Make statistical inferences and conduct
A/B tests
• Manage data projects to ensure they add
value to an organisation
• Use software engineering tools to write
code collaboratively and efficiently
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How you’ll learn

In this course you’ll experience our ‘flipped

classroom’ style of learning, where students
cover course content independently before M I N I M U M CO M P U T I N G
coming together to take on practical R E Q U I R E M E N TS
challenges and collaborate as a group with
mentor support. O P E R AT I N G SYST E MS
You’ll learn through a combination of: Laptop running the latest
version of either Mac OSX or
• readings Windows 10
• pre-recorded videos
M E M O RY
• regular live sessions with your mentor and 8GB+ of RAM
peers
HARD DRIVE
• 1:1 sessions with your mentor 20GB+ of free hard drive
• forums for Q&A
space

• writing blog posts to strengthen your H A R DWA R E

understanding of concepts A working keyboard,
trackpad/mouse, and display
• hands-on coding practice through labs
and projects A D M I N IST R AT I V E ACC E SS
Required
I N T E R N E T ACC E SS
Required
W E B CA M
Required

AD D ITIONAL CONSID ERATIONS

• Chromebooks, tablets, and
smartphones will not work.
• Laptops should have the latest
version of its operating system and be
no more than 4-5 years old

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What you’ll learn
Our Data Analytics curriculum is designed to teach you foundational Python and SQL skills,
practical applications like data visualisation, exploratory data analysis and data modelling
techniques using regression.
You’ll get plenty of data analysis and coding practice, with practical lab exercises and
activities embedded in each topic. You’ll also work through three course projects.

PA RT 1 : 5 W E E KS ( 75 H O U RS )
The first half of this course is all about data collection, organisation, cleansing, manipulation
and visualisation using Python and SQL.

PY T H O N F U N DA M E N TA LS & D E S C R I PT I V E STAT IST I C S

Python is a powerful part of the data scientist’s toolbox as it can handle massive amounts of
data, automate reporting, and connect to databases seamlessly. Learn and use basic Python
programming to manipulate and clean data, and create impactful visualisations.

PYT H O N ESSEN T IA LS
» Variables and Data Strings
› Strings
› Numbers
› Booleans
› Lists
› Dictionaries
» Conditionals and Control Flow
» Using built-in operators and functions

PYT H O N LO O PS & FUNCTIONS

» Loops
› For loops
› While loops
› Nested loops
› Looping over collections
» Writing functions
› With and without arguments

STAT IST ICA L ME ASURES

» NumPy library
» Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, quantiles)
» Measures of dispersion (standard deviation, variance)
» Covariance and correlation
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What you’ll learn

PY T H O N F U N DA M E N TA LS & D E S C R I PT I V E STAT IST I C S

DATA V IS UA L ISAT I O N
» Creating visualisations using Matplotlib
» Customising visualisations

WO R K I N G LO CA L LY O N YO U R M AC H I N E
» Set up a local environment to run Jupyter notebooks

B AS H A N D G I T
» Clone, create, and push to GitHub repositories

DATA A N A LYS IS I N B AS E PY T H O N
» File input and output in Python
» Read and extract data from JSON files
» Read and extract data from CSV files

LOA D I N G, C L E A N I N G, A N D V IS UA L IS I N G
DATA F O R E X P LO R AT I O N
Learn how to collect data from the web using web scraping and APIs. Load and clean data
using Pandas, a popular python library. Use SQL, the top language for data work to organise
data and perform operations on it.

DATA A N A LYS IS I N PA N DAS

» Load, access, and describe data using pandas
» Use descriptive statistics to perform Exploratory Data Analysis

DATA C L E A N I N G I N PA N DAS
» Clean, transform, and aggregate data using pandas

WO R K I N G W I T H A P IS
» Understand the basic HTTP Request/Response Cycle
» Understand and use Auth to call 3rd party APIs
» Read, store, and parse JSON responses
» Understand and use best practices for working with 3rd party APIs safely

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What you’ll learn

LOA D I N G, C L E A N I N G, A N D V IS UA L IS I N G
DATA F O R E X P LO R AT I O N

WEB SCRAPING
» Explain what HTML is and why it’s important in the context of web
development
» Describe the DOM and its relationship to HTML
» Navigate HTML documents using Beautiful Soup
» Identify and scrape images from a webpage

G E T T I N G STA RT E D W I T H S Q L
» Perform basic SQL queries on a single table, including the use of WHERE
and ORDER BY
» Demonstrate understanding of the parts of a database (row, column, table,
relationship, etc)
» Perform basic CRUD operations in SQL

S Q L TA B L E R E L AT I O NS
» Perform joins
» Use aggregate functions in SQL with GROUP BY
» Perform advanced queries in SQL including nested queries

P R OJ E CT 1: B U S I N E SS A N A LYS IS
( 1 W E E K - 20 H O U RS )
Work in groups to analyse the pizza market of NYC and make business recommendations.

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What you’ll learn

PA RT 2 : 6 W E E KS ( 90 H O U RS )
The second half of this course focuses on understanding the significance of statistics in the field
of data analysis, and applying various data models to make inferences about the data.

I N F E R E N T I A L STAT IST I C S A N D A / B T E ST I N G
Use inferential statistics to make inferences about the population based on sample data, by
testing hypotheses and deriving estimates.

PROBABILITY
» Understand mathematical set notation, and connect set logic to
probability concepts

STAT IST I CA L D IST R I B U T I O NS

» Understand why data distributions matter, and how to interpret their
mathematical representations
» Understand that many processes in real life are normally distributed
» Demonstrate understanding of how a normal distribution can be
transformed into a standard normal distribution

C E N T R A L L I M I T T H E O R E M A N D CO N F I D E N C E I N T E RVA LS
» Understand sampling error and the Central Limit Theorem
» Construct confidence intervals

H Y P OT H E S IS T E ST I N G
» Set up experiments
» Perform hypothesis tests (z-tests and t-tests)
» Interpret the results of statistical tests, including p-values and Type I and
Type II errors

STAT IST I CA L P OW E R A N D A N OVA

» Understanding what statistical significance means
» Use ANOVA test to find out whether the differences between groups of
data are statistically significant

A / B T E ST I N G
» Conduct an A/B test to compare the two versions of a variable to find out
which performs better in a controlled environment

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What you’ll learn

R E G R E SS I O N M O D E L L I N G
Regression modelling is all about making predictions about the future, based on past data and
behaviour. Learn how to exploit patterns found in historical and transactional data to identify
risks and opportunities.

I N T R O D U CT I O N TO L I N E A R R E G R E SS I O N
» Perform linear regression on a dataset with one predictor using
statsmodels
» Interpret regression output
» Identify and test the assumptions of simple linear regression models

M U LT I P L E L I N E A R R E G R E SS I O N A N D M O D E L VA L I DAT I O N
» Encode categorical variables
» Address multicollinearity
» Scaling and normalization
» Perform multiple regression using high dimensional datasets in statsmodels
and scikit-learn
» Interpret regression output
» Validate model using holdout data

E X T E NS I O N TO L I N E A R M O D E LS
» Add interactions and polynomial features to improve model performance
» Bias-variance tradeoff

P R OJ E CT 2 : R E G R E SS I O N M O D E L L I N G
( 1 W E E K - 20 H O U RS )
Work in pairs to source your own data, using APIs and/or externally sourced CSVs. Once you’ve
collected your data set, you’ll run hypothesis tests, AB tests, and/or regression analysis on it.
Note: A default dataset can be provided upon request but is not recommended.

F I N A L P R OJ E CT A N D I N D U ST RY S H OWCAS E
(2 W E E KS - 3 O to 4 0 H O U RS )
Go solo on your final capstone project, which brings together everything you have learned in the
course. You’ll source data, prepare it for modelling and perform a regression analysis.
Present your completed project to your course Mentor, peers and a panel of Industry Experts,
who will critique your work and provide feedback. Use your industry showcase to build your
network in the data community.

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Career support
program
Once you’ve done your comprehensive
project and industry showcase, it’s all about
landing you that dream Data Analytics role! At
this point of your learning journey, you’ll have
the skills and practical experience - all that’s
left is to craft your career narrative.
With the Career Support Program, you’ll
receive comprehensive career guidance and
support. You’ll undertake activities that in but
not limited to:
• Finesse: Add polish to your Portfolio, CV
and LinkedIn creating a coherent career
narrative.
• Practice: Hone your soft skills, such as
interview and presentation techniques.
• Search: Build your network within the
industry and apply for your dream roles.
Course progression
Once you begin the course, your mentor will
check that all the key concepts are nailed
before you progress through modules. This
ensures that you will develop the confidence
and skills to go it alone and succeed the
further you get into the course.
The regular live sessions with your class
are a great opportunity to ask questions,
learn from others, and catch up. If you get
stuck, you can use your mentor on-demand
sessions for a private call with your mentor.
Course timeframe
Your course takes approximately 225 hours
over 15 weeks. This includes absorbing
the learning materials, attending live
sessions, participating in 1:1 mentoring
sessions, completing the course activities,
working on your assessment projects, and
communicating with peers and your mentor.
This course is to be completed in 15 weeks.
However, you’ll continue to enjoy 6 months
access to the course content from the time
of enrolment.
Assessments
Our graduates are recognised by the
industry to possess important data
analytics skills including Python, SQL, and
Data Modelling. To ensure you achieve the
specified outcomes, this course includes
multiple assessment projects and regular
coding exercises.
All project work will be completed in
technical Jupyter notebooks, a tool used
by data scientists. Your final project will
also include a non-technical PowerPoint
presentation, and a written overview.
At different stages of the course, you’ll need
to submit your assessment projects to your
mentor for marking. At the end of the course,
you’ll submit and present your final project.
Your mentor will mark your work and provide
structured feedback of where you went well,
and ways you could improve in the future.
To prepare for the assessment, you should
complete all the activities and tasks
throughout the course to ensure you are
applying the techniques appropriately.
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