What You'll Get
5+ Hours of self-paced training videos
26 high-value, learn-as-you-work lessons
Expert stories from the field & across industries
Research-backed curriculum designed to unlock your hidden talents
Immediately applicable Pro Tips & Tactics
Graphite Academy
A Pro's Guide To Python For Business Leaders & Big Data
Analyze larger data sets and deliver faster insights than possible with Excel.
$199
Self-paced E-learning course
7-day money back guarantee
Trusted by top companies
Set Yourself Apart
Why you should take this course
Excel has long been the most important tool for analyzing data, but it just can't keep up with the increasing size of data sets. If you want to keep your analytics skills relevant and your business from slowing down, you simply must learn some Python.
Thankfully, you can learn just the right amount in a matter of hours! In this course, you'll pick up with Python where Excel leaves off.
What You'll Learn
- Where Excel stops and Python begins
- How to accelerate your analysis with Python
- Working with lots of data without slowing down
- A quick-start approach to modeling with Python
- How to communicate effectively with data pros
- Much More! See Full Agenda
Optimized for You
Who is this program for?
consultants
- Learn enough Python to work with data teams
- Support clients with expanding data sets
- Learn to translate business requirements into research questions
employees
- Connect business leaders with data scientists
- Translate high level objectives into specific data questions
- Help managers develop their data leadership skills
- Help your team become more data-driven
Meet your Instructor
Wendy Yip
Multilingual Data Scientist with consulting, research, and applied machine learning experience
- 10 years experience across many organizations including private equity, startups, fortune 500s, and consulting firms
- Diverse experience across multiple verticals including finance, automotive, industrials, energy, and technology
- Experienced instructor and researcher connecting business leaders and data scientists
Our Difference
What sets this course apart
Python is one of the world's most popular programming languages. It's used virtually everywhere. So learning just the right amount and at just the right time, can be quite tricky.
This course helps business professionals transition from Excel to Python, so whether you're familiar with programming or not, you'll learn just enough Python in the context of doing actual data analysis to pick up right where Excel leaves off.
Don't let the size of your data prevent you from gathering the insights you need. Upgrade your skills with just the right amount of Python.
Course Curriculum
1. Python powers and limitations
- 1.1. Where Excel stops and Python begins
- 1.2. Approaching Python as your first programming language
- 1.3. Approaching Python from the programmer's perspective
- 1.4. Using Python for data analysis
- 1.5. Overlaps and differences between Python & R
2. Everything you do in Excel but faster and with bigger data
- 2.1. Setting up your development environment
- 2.2. What we're going to use and when you might want to skip this
- 2.3. The Power of Pandas
- 2.4. Loading in data
- 2.5. Filtering your data
- 2.6. Aggregating your data
3. Exploring data with Python
- 3.1. Sizing up your data
- 3.2. Identifying the types of variable and data types
- 3.3. Get some summary statistics about your data sets
- 3.4. Visualizing your data
- 3.5. Data gaps and what to do with them
- 3.6. Handling Outliers
4. Getting into modeling
- 4.1. Going beyond linear regressions and other common techniques
- 4.2. Learning about libraries
- 4.3. Learning from the data science community
- 4.4. Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning
- 4.5. Deciding how far you want to go with modeling and machine learning
5. Working with your data experts
- 5.1. Setting the right expectations and business objectives
- 5.2. Answering the 5 why before you're asked
- 5.3. Meeting the needs of your data experts
- 5.4. Team up to tell great stories
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I learn in these courses?
- Graphite Academy courses are based on the premise that expertise these days is less about what you know, and more about how you think. We've designed these courses to help you unpack the mind of some of Graphite's top consultants, giving you the feeling of having the expert in the room with you as a source of knowledge and inspiration.
In these courses, you'll learn how experts use data tools to advance their careers and solve bigger problems. You'll hear how they learn about their clients underlying needs and desires, identify business assumptions and data sources needed to begin the analysis, and deliver finding with confidence, conviction, and compelling stories. We'll also include screenshares of the expert walking through the tools themselves to show you how the lessons apply in a practical sense on screen.
What is the format and structure of these courses?
- These courses are organized into 3 to 5 hours of video content structured in 5 to 10 minute segments. You'll have access to interviews with experts, stories from the field, and screenshares walking you through the tools in action.
You'll be able to watch the videos at your own pace anytime. We also include supplementary links and resources to help you dive into the tools and start practicing real-world applications of the technology on your own computer.
What sets these courses apart?
- We believe that expertise these days is less about what you know and more about how you think. So we have hired experts in online learning to tap into the minds of some of our top Graphite consultants, and show you how they think and use technology to solve bigger problems and advance their careers.
Other courses on the internet tend to focus on the technical features of the tool with lectures and long winded screencasts demoing the tool. Those courses tend to be tedious and outdated, and usually redundant since the "how to" resources are usually available online for free.
When are these courses offered?
- Once you purchase a published course you will have unlimited access to the course content. You can view it wherever, whenever you want.
We suggest taking the course once, and then going back to it in a few months to see what new lessons you learn from the experts as your own knowledge and experience with the tool evolves.
Do I need access to the tech tool to take this course?
- Most learners enjoy following along with the lessons on their own computers, which would require you to have your own access to the software featured in the course. Others use the courses to get an overview of the tool so they can have informed conversations about the tool with clients and decide when to invest in the tool as an addition to their professional repertoire.
Most of our courses, such as Tableau and SQL have free-to-use options you can use to teach yourself the tool and follow along with course content. Others, such as Excel, require a paid license to use.
What prior experience do I need to take this course?
- No prior experience with the tool is required. These courses are best for two levels of prior experience:
A. You've heard of the tool featured in the course and you'd like to learn how to start using it on the job
B. You've worked with the tool before and would like to level up your skills and accelerate your path to expertise
At minimum, you should have heard of the tool featured in the course and have a basic sense of how it's used by businesses.
Where can I learn the basics before I take these courses?
- No prior experience is with the tool is required. However, it is recommended that you have heard of the tool and have a basic understanding of how it's used in business.
If you'd like to familiarize yourself with the basics of the tool in order to decide whether it's the right time to take a Graphite Academy course, we recommend searching for "best YouTube channels for learning Thinkific" and watching a few free videos to get a basic understanding of the tool.
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