Business Analyst Certificate
Start a career as a business analyst with this hands-on certificate program. Learn the tools and skills you'll need to succeed as a business analyst with interactive training.
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Start a career as a business analyst with this hands-on certificate program. Learn the tools and skills you'll need to succeed as a business analyst with interactive training.
Feb 9–Apr 4
Weekdays
Master the tools of a business analyst and launch your career as a business analyst by learning Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, & Tableau in hands-on classes.
This program is perfect for professionals looking to start a career as a business analyst. In these hands-on classes, you'll work with the key tools you'll need to succeed as a business analyst and get yourself job-ready. Work on real projects in Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, and Tableau to really gain mastery of the tools. You'll boost your resume with some of the most in-demand skills and be ready to succeed on the job.
You'll learn how to work with data in a variety of formats, generate insights from data, automate work, create amazing visualizations, and wrap it all together in a presentation.
The Business Analyst Certificate is open to beginners and requires no prior Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, or SQL knowledge.
As one of our smaller courses, tuition for this course is due in full before the start date.
There are no extra fees or taxes for our courses. The price you see on this page is the maximum you’ll pay us.
However, if you plan to take the course live online, you may need to obtain required software. We’ll help you get set up with a free trial of paid software prior to the class. Most of our coding classes utilize freely-available open-source software. For most of our design and motion graphics courses, we will help you get set up with a free trial of Adobe Creative Cloud. If you attend the course in-person, we will have a computer already set up for you with all of the required software for no additional cost.
This program is a discounted package of classes that is 15–25% off the individual class prices.
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Attend this course in-person in NYC or Live Online via Zoom. Engage with expert instructors, ask questions, and get feedback on your exercises and projects. Switch between live-online and in-person as needed, even after the course has started.
Unlike other providers, these are not mass open-enrollment classes. At NYIM Training, you’ll learn in small groups (typically 8-15 students) and receive personalized attention.
Get face-to-face interaction with an instructor and other students when you learn at our NYC campus. Courses are hands-on with a computer and software provided.
Get the same interactivity and access to the instructor as in-person students. There are no extra fees and we’ll work with you to ensure your remote setup is perfect.
Upon completion of this course, you’ll receive an official certificate testifying to your mastery of the curriculum. We’ll send you a link where you can download your certificate, share it online with your friends, post it to your professional network on LinkedIn, and view all your earned certificates. Congratulations on your achievement!
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We offer a single free retake of the any module or the whole program within a year.
You can also access recordings of each session in your student portal within one business day of the session’s end. Recordings are available for one month after the session.
This is the recommended order, but some courses may be taken in a different order.
Unit 1 6 Hours
Master the core Microsoft Excel functions in this one-day course. Automate calculations and data entry. Apply formatting to text and cells to make your spreadsheet scannable and visually appealing. In this hands-on training, you will learn all the basics to use Excel as your primary data processing tool. You'll produce polished and print ready spreadsheets while learning tricks to accelerate your workflow.
Unit 2 6 Hours
Go from beginner to experienced professional: summarize data with Pivot Tables, write advanced functions including VLOOKUP, and learn techniques to expedite your workflow. Use tools and formulas to format text. Manipulate data visuals with advanced charting skills. Use statistical formulas like COUNTIFS and SUMIFS to learn more about your data. At the end of intermediate Excel, you'll unlock powerful techniques that will help you complete tasks more quickly.
Unit 3 6 Hours
Advance your career with this essential course for professionals that use Excel daily. You'll make functions more flexible, take Pivot Tables to the next level, and automate tasks with macros. Utilize Excel's most important tools with training in core database functions. If you have a strong working knowledge in Excel and want to save even more time with custom shortcuts and advanced features, this is the perfect course for you.
Unit 4 6 Hours
Unit 5 6 Hours
Unit 6 6 Hours
In this course, you will be introduced to the field of data visualization and the various tools Tableau Public offers. Through concepts and exercises, you will learn to identify datasets to connect to, explore, analyze, filter and structure your data to create your desired visualizations.
Unit 7 6 Hours
In this course, you dive further into Tableau tools and customization of your visualizations. You will learn to create a variety of maps to represent your geographic data, and build actions to control your visualizations within your sheets and dashboards. This course requires to have completed level I in Tableau.
Unit 8 6.75 Hours
Unit 9 6.75 Hours
Students must be comfortable using a computer. No other prior knowledge is required.
This course does not qualify for payments plans or student financing. See our Payment Plan FAQ to find related programs that qualify.
You may attend this training virtually (online) at the scheduled time the course is offered (New York, Eastern Time).
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Purchase group class vouchers at a discount for our regularly-scheduled group classes in NYC, or create a custom training program at your offices.
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In this part of the program, you'll build your foundational analytics skills with the most commonly used analytics tool, Microsoft Excel. You'll go from a beginner to a master of Excel in just 3 days in this intensive Bootcamp. You'll learn to do things you didn't even know were possible in Excel and become a powerful and efficient Excel user. You'll learn to manipulate data, create charts, make Pivot Tables, automate workflows, and a whole lot more in Excel.
Another key skill for a business analyst is being to build professional presentations in PowerPoint. You'll learn beginner to advanced techniques in PowerPoint, from the basics of adding content to slides to creating reusable templates and import data from Excel. Combine your analytics skills with presentation skills to make data-driven insights and share them with decision-makers in powerful presentations.
Master Tableau in just 2 days in this hands-on training to perform analysis and create amazing visualizations in Tableau. Tableau is a commonly used data visualization tool that allows users to connect to datasets, manipulate data, and easily create advanced visualizations beyond Excel. You'll learn to connect to data, analyze it, and create a variety of visualizations in Tableau.
Learn SQL, the most commonly used language for interacting with databases. Understand the fundamentals of relational databases and start querying data from databases. Then, you'll move to more advanced querying techniques so you can easily pull, manipulate, and combine data from multiple databases. SQL is a relatively easy-to-learn language that enables you to work with databases and is crucial for a business analyst.
In this article, we'll cover the key reasons why SQL is such an in-demand skill for business analysts and how it can help you at your job.
Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet and data analysis program with wide-ranging capabilities. In this article, we will review the advantages gained by attending our Microsoft Excel training classes.
Data Visualizations are an undeniable part of how we communicate information about our data. It is fair to say that Tableau is an extremely powerful tool, and has no equal in data visualization capabilities and performances.
While there have been many attempts by other software companies to create comparable tools, there is not currently any software on the market that rivals the advantages offered by PowerPoint. In this article, we’ll review 6 of the best reasons why business professionals should give serious consideration to learning Microsoft PowerPoint.
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