- Certificate of AttainmentKelly Bayer Rosmarin Chief Executive Officer OptusSeptember 15, 202258485263Vinay Siddagangappahas successfully completed a 5 Credit Micro CredentialGetting Started with AnalyticsSignedIn partnership withProfessor Eric Knight Executive Dean Macquarie Business SchoolApril-August 2022

Certificate of Attainment
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
Chief Executive Officer
Optus
September 15, 2022
58485263
Vinay Siddagangappa
has successfully completed a 5 Credit Micro Credential
Getting Started with Analytics
Signed
In partnership with
Professor Eric Knight
Executive Dean
Macquarie Business School




April-August 2022
Vinay Siddagangappa
This micro-credential refreshes existing knowledge and introduces new skills in analytical techniques. Use of spreadsheets to understand key concepts used by analytics professionals: summarising, interpreting and visualising data, forming and testing hypotheses, filtering and transforming data, building models to ask "what if?" questions, or optimising product features. This is an introduction to the technical and philosophical skills required, and the many applications of business analytics.
Learning Outcomes
• Develop superior skills using spreadsheets to summarise, model and visualise data to make decisions
• Understand how data can be interpreted in different ways in line with an agenda, and ask appropriate questions
Key Topics
• The difference between Data Analysis and Statistics
• Cleaning & formatting data
• Bivariate analysis
• Pivot tables & summary statistics
• Advanced Excel and building models
• Optimisation
Activities
• Self-directed online resources
• Case studies, group work and in class exercises
• A weekly spreadsheet demonstrating mastery of the techniques and methods introduced - assessed
• Completion of specific spreadsheet task - assessed
• Written reflections on the applying the knowledge - assessed
• Excel portfolio reflecting the knowledge gained over the course of the unit - assessed
Volume of Learning
75 hours
Credit Points
5
AQF Level
8
Skills / Knowledge
- Cleaning and formatting data
- Bivariate Analysis
- Pivot Tables and Summary Statistics
- Advanced Excel and Building Models
- Optimisation
Issued on
September 15, 2022
Expires on
Does not expire