Data Analytics (CCL)

The Certificate of Completion (CCL) in Data Analytics is designed to prepare students to model, synthesize, analyze, and present large data sets for business decision making.

Courses will focus on the techniques and computer software used in industry to extract data from various data sources, model and integrate that data, and then visualize this data for business decision making and intelligence gathering.

This program prepares students for industry certification and is embedded (can be used to fulfill requirements) in the Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Data Analytics available at MCCCD.

Graduates of this program will be able to:

• Use a computer spreadsheet program to create, store, modify, and print electronic spreadsheets.
• Demonstrate the skills needed to set up, maintain, and use a database management program.
• Design and create database structures to store, retrieve, update, and display data in a relational database using SQL.
• Identify the fundamental characteristics and functions of modern business, including business principles, marketing, labor relations, and business risk.
• Solve probability applications.
• Distinguish between continuous and discrete variables for business intelligence.
• Calculate and interpret descriptive statistics for either raw or grouped data.
• Use descriptive and inferential statistical techniques and confidence levels for decision making when testing hypotheses.
• Use regression and correlation analysis to interpret the results.
• Apply data modeling techniques for data visualization and informed decision making.