Business Analytics · Lessons

Business Analytics lessons

7 sections · 57 skills · work through the full outline skill by skill — read the long-form lesson or flip through the slide-style version.

Long-form lessonsSlide-style lessons

Practice 57 skills across this outline.

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Stakeholders & Decision Context

Foundations of Business Analytics · Analytics Lifecycle and Problem Framing

Long-form lesson

Weighting distribution

14 categories

Prescriptive Analytics

14%

Experimentation and Causal Thinking · A/B Testing Fundamentals

Data Wrangling and Querying · SQL Concepts

Foundations of Business Analytics · Analytics Lifecycle and Problem Framing

Foundations of Business Analytics · Data Literacy and Data Quality

Descriptive Analytics and Visualization · Descriptive Statistics and Summaries

Skills

The comprehensive taxonomy of business analytics — drill into a card to work its skills.

Foundations of Business Analytics · Analytics Lifecycle and Problem Framing

4 core skills7% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Stakeholders & Decision ContextRecommended

Long-form

Defining Business Problems & KPIsAvailable

Long-form

Types of AnalyticsAvailable

Long-form

Translating Business QuestionsAvailable

Long-form

Foundations of Business Analytics · Data Literacy and Data Quality

4 core skills7% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Data Quality AssessmentAvailable

Long-form

Data Cleaning & PreprocessingAvailable

Long-form

Data Types & SummariesAvailable

Long-form

Ethics & PrivacyAvailable

Long-form

Experimentation and Causal Thinking · A/B Testing Fundamentals

5 core skills9% total weight

0/5 completed

5 skills to mastery

Hypotheses & Success MetricsAvailable

Long-form

A/B Testing PitfallsAvailable

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Randomization & Experiment DesignAvailable

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Sample Size & PowerAvailable

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CIs & p-Values for ExperimentsAvailable

Long-form

Experimentation and Causal Thinking · Causal Inference Concepts

3 core skills5% total weight

0/3 completed

3 skills to mastery

Correlation vs. CausationAvailable

Long-form

Difference-in-DifferencesAvailable

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IV & Regression DiscontinuityAvailable

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Descriptive Analytics and Visualization · Descriptive Statistics and Summaries

4 core skills7% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Segment & Cohort AnalysisAvailable

Long-form

Correlation & AssociationAvailable

Long-form

Mean, Median, Variance & SDAvailable

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Percentiles & IQRAvailable

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Descriptive Analytics and Visualization · Data Visualization and Dashboards

4 core skills7% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Visual StorytellingAvailable

Long-form

Choosing Chart TypesAvailable

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Dashboard & KPI DesignAvailable

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Avoiding Misleading ChartsAvailable

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Data Wrangling and Querying · Tabular Data Operations

4 core skills6% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Merging DatasetsAvailable

Long-form

Transforming Tabular DataAvailable

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Group-By SummariesAvailable

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Creating Derived VariablesAvailable

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Data Wrangling and Querying · SQL Concepts

5 core skills8% total weight

0/5 completed

5 skills to mastery

GROUP BY & HAVINGAvailable

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Window FunctionsAvailable

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Table JoinsAvailable

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SELECT, WHERE & ORDER BYAvailable

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Subqueries & CTEsAvailable

Long-form

Prescriptive Analytics

4 core skills14% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Sensitivity & Scenario AnalysisAvailable

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Decision Trees & Expected ValueAvailable

Long-form

Linear ProgrammingAvailable

Long-form

Simulation & Monte CarloAvailable

Long-form

Predictive Modeling · Classification and Segmentation

4 core skills5% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Clustering & SegmentationAvailable

Long-form

Classification BasicsAvailable

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Model Evaluation & ValidationAvailable

Long-form

Precision, Recall & ROC/AUCAvailable

Long-form

Predictive Modeling · Regression Modeling

4 core skills5% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Multiple RegressionAvailable

Long-form

Model Diagnostics & ResidualsAvailable

Long-form

Overfitting & InterpretabilityAvailable

Long-form

Simple Linear RegressionAvailable

Long-form

Predictive Modeling · Forecasting

4 core skills5% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Time Series BasicsAvailable

Long-form

Forecasting PitfallsAvailable

Long-form

Moving Average & SmoothingAvailable

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Forecast Accuracy MetricsAvailable

Long-form

Tools, Communication, and Delivery · Analytics Project Workflow

4 core skills7% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Versioning & ReproducibilityAvailable

Long-form

Data DocumentationAvailable

Long-form

Analytics Project PitfallsAvailable

Long-form

Project Scope & Success CriteriaAvailable

Long-form

Tools, Communication, and Delivery · Interpreting Analytical Output

4 core skills7% total weight

0/4 completed

4 skills to mastery

Translating Results to ActionsAvailable

Long-form

Communicating LimitationsAvailable

Long-form

Executive SummariesAvailable

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Interpreting Analytics OutputAvailable

Long-form