Data and AI Analytics

Data and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers

Become the person in the room who can actually answer the question with data, without writing a line of code.

4 months (16 weeks), joinable any month Working professionals and students with no programming background; spreadsheet familiarity helps but is not required 2 live classes/week + weekly work on real datasets Course-completion certificate from Modern Age Coders

Syllabus updated July 2026

Data and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)

Flexible course duration

Duration depends on the student's background and pace. Beginners (kids / teens): typically 6 to 9 months. Adults with prior knowledge: often shorter, with an accelerated path.

Standard pace6 to 9 months
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Program Overview

Most people who need to work with data are not going to become programmers, and they do not need to. The person who can take a messy export, clean it, find the real pattern and present it clearly in a dashboard is enormously valuable in any team, and almost none of that requires code. What it requires is knowing how to structure data, which comparison is honest, and how to build something a decision-maker can actually read.

This course teaches exactly that path, in the tools your workplace already has. You start with spreadsheets done properly, Excel and Google Sheets, including the lookup and pivot skills most people never learn. You move into cleaning and shaping real messy data, which is where most analysis actually fails. Then you build interactive dashboards in Power BI and learn to model relationships between tables so the numbers hold up under questioning.

AI runs through the whole course, honestly. Modern AI assistants can write your formulas, summarise a dataset and suggest a chart, and used well they make you considerably faster. Used badly they produce confident nonsense that you then present to your manager. So we teach both: how to use AI to accelerate the work, and how to check what it gives you before you trust it. Every module ends with real, messy datasets rather than tidy teaching examples, because tidy data is not what anybody actually receives.

What Makes This Program Different

  • No coding required at any point, and no pretending you will secretly need Python later
  • Built on the tools your workplace already has: Excel, Google Sheets and Power BI
  • Real messy data from week one, because cleaning is where most analysis actually fails
  • AI assistants taught honestly: how to go faster with them, and how to catch the confident nonsense before you present it
  • Focused on the question behind the request, since the hard part is usually deciding what to measure
  • Live, small batches where your dashboard gets critiqued like a colleague would critique it

Your Learning Journey

Phase 1
Spreadsheets done properly: structure, lookups, pivots and the formulas that matter
Phase 2
Cleaning and shaping messy real data, then statistics that keep you honest
Phase 3
Power BI dashboards, data modelling, AI-assisted analysis and a portfolio project

Career Progression

1
The ability to answer a business question with data, end to end, without coding
2
Dashboards a manager can read and trust
3
A portfolio project you can show in an interview
4
A credible move toward analyst, operations or business-intelligence work
5
Enough statistical judgement to avoid presenting a misleading chart

Detailed Course Curriculum

Explore the complete week-by-week breakdown of what you'll learn in this comprehensive program.

Topics Covered
  • What a clean table actually looks like, and why yours probably is not one
  • Rows as records, columns as fields, and one fact per cell
  • Why merged cells and colour-as-data destroy analysis
  • Data types, dates and the formatting traps that silently break totals
  • Turning a human-formatted sheet into an analysable one
Projects You Build
  • Take a genuinely badly structured sheet and restructure it into a usable table
Practice & Assignments

Restructure three messy real-world sheets

Topics Covered
  • Absolute and relative references, and why formulas break when copied
  • IF, nested conditions, and when to stop nesting
  • SUMIF, COUNTIF, AVERAGEIF and their multi-criteria versions
  • Text and date functions for real cleanup
  • Error handling so a broken cell does not poison a whole column
Projects You Build
  • Build a summary sheet driven entirely by formulas from a raw data tab
Practice & Assignments

20 formula tasks against a real dataset

Topics Covered
  • VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP and INDEX with MATCH, and when each is right
  • Joining two tables on a common key
  • Handling missing matches honestly instead of hiding them
  • Duplicate keys and the quiet damage they do
  • The equivalents in Google Sheets
Projects You Build
  • Combine three separate exports into one analysable table and reconcile the mismatches
Practice & Assignments

15 lookup and join exercises including deliberately broken keys

Assessment

A timed spreadsheet task: clean, join and summarise a real dataset

Topics Covered
  • Pivot tables from the ground up
  • Grouping, filtering and calculated fields
  • Slicing by dimension to find where a number actually comes from
  • Reading a pivot critically instead of accepting it
  • Charts that clarify rather than decorate
Projects You Build
  • Answer five real business questions about one dataset using only pivots
Practice & Assignments

Build pivots answering supplied questions, then explain each finding

Topics Covered
  • Duplicates, near-duplicates and how to decide which is real
  • Missing values and the options: exclude, impute or report
  • Inconsistent categories and text normalisation
  • Outliers, and telling a data error from a genuine extreme
  • Documenting every cleaning decision so your numbers are defensible
Projects You Build
  • Clean a genuinely messy dataset and write a short log of every decision made
Practice & Assignments

Clean three datasets with different problems

Topics Covered
  • Why manual cleaning does not survive next month's file
  • Power Query basics: importing, transforming and loading
  • Building a repeatable cleaning pipeline
  • Unpivoting and reshaping data
  • Refreshing when new data arrives, with no rework
Projects You Build
  • Build a Power Query pipeline that cleans a monthly export automatically
Practice & Assignments

Convert last week's manual cleaning into a repeatable query

Topics Covered
  • Mean, median and when the average actively misleads
  • Spread and why two datasets with the same average differ completely
  • Percentages, percentage points and the errors that get presented in meetings
  • Correlation is not causation, with real examples
  • Sample size and why small numbers should not drive big decisions
Projects You Build
  • Take a real claim from a report and check whether the data actually supports it
Practice & Assignments

Critique supplied analyses and identify what each gets wrong

Assessment

A written critique of a deliberately misleading analysis

Topics Covered
  • Choosing the chart from the question, not from preference
  • Truncated axes and the other ways charts mislead
  • Comparing like with like
  • Labelling so a chart survives being forwarded without you
  • Removing everything that is not carrying information
Projects You Build
  • Redesign three bad charts and explain what each change fixes
Practice & Assignments

Build charts for supplied questions and defend each choice

Topics Covered
  • Connecting to data and shaping it on import
  • The difference between a report and a dashboard
  • Core visuals and when each is appropriate
  • Filters, slicers and cross-filtering
  • Publishing and sharing safely
Projects You Build
  • Build your first working Power BI report from a real dataset
Practice & Assignments

Rebuild an existing spreadsheet report as a Power BI report

Topics Covered
  • Fact and dimension tables in plain language
  • Relationships and why a star schema keeps numbers correct
  • The problems caused by one flat table
  • Date tables and time intelligence
  • Diagnosing a wrong total caused by a bad relationship
Projects You Build
  • Model a multi-table dataset properly and prove the totals reconcile
Practice & Assignments

Fix three broken data models

Topics Covered
  • Calculated columns versus measures, and why the difference matters
  • Core DAX: SUM, AVERAGE, COUNTROWS, CALCULATE
  • Filter context in plain terms
  • Time comparisons: month on month, year on year
  • Writing measures you can still understand next quarter
Projects You Build
  • Add a full measure set to your model including period comparisons
Practice & Assignments

15 DAX exercises building from simple to filtered

Assessment

A timed dashboard task assessed on correctness and clarity

Topics Covered
  • Starting from the decision the dashboard should support
  • Layout, hierarchy and what belongs above the fold
  • Restraint: fewer visuals, better chosen
  • Making it self-explanatory without you presenting it
  • Testing it on someone who has never seen it
Projects You Build
  • Redesign your dashboard after watching someone else try to use it
Practice & Assignments

Peer usability reviews of each other's dashboards

Topics Covered
  • What AI assistants are genuinely good at in analytics work
  • Getting formulas, DAX and cleaning steps written for you
  • Asking for an explanation of a formula you inherited
  • Writing a prompt that includes the context the model needs
  • Speed gains that are real, and the ones that are illusory
Projects You Build
  • Solve a full analysis task using AI assistance and log where it helped and where it did not
Practice & Assignments

Complete supplied tasks with AI, then verify every output

Topics Covered
  • Why an AI can produce a confident, plausible, wrong formula
  • Verifying a result against a known subtotal before trusting it
  • Spot-checking summaries against the raw data
  • Never pasting confidential data into a tool that is not approved
  • Being able to explain any number you present, whatever produced it
Projects You Build
  • Audit a set of AI-produced analyses and find the errors deliberately planted in them
Practice & Assignments

Verification drills on AI output

Assessment

A verification test: find every error in an AI-assisted analysis

Topics Covered
  • Choosing a question that matters to a real audience
  • Sourcing and cleaning the data end to end
  • Modelling, measures and dashboard build
  • Documenting assumptions and limitations honestly
  • Preparing to defend every number
Projects You Build
  • Build your full capstone: question, clean data, model, dashboard, findings
Practice & Assignments

Capstone checkpoints with review

Topics Covered
  • Leading with the finding, not the method
  • Telling the story a decision-maker needs in two minutes
  • Answering the hard question about your data honestly
  • Packaging the project for a portfolio or interview
  • What to say when the data does not support the hoped-for answer
Projects You Build
  • Present your capstone and take questions from the group
Practice & Assignments

Rehearsed presentations with critique

Assessment

Final capstone presentation assessed on clarity, correctness and honesty

Projects You'll Build

Build a professional portfolio with 50+ projects real-world projects.

Technologies & Skills You'll Master

Comprehensive coverage of the entire modern web development stack.

Career Outcomes & Opportunities

Transform your career with industry-ready skills and job placement support.

Prerequisites

Title
What You Need to Start
Items
No programming experience at all; nothing in this course requires code,Basic comfort with a spreadsheet helps, but the fundamentals are retaught properly,A computer that can run Excel or Google Sheets, and Power BI Desktop for the later modules,A willingness to work with messy real data rather than tidy examples

Who Is This Course For?

Title
Who This Course Is For
Items
Working professionals who keep being handed data and are expected to make sense of it,Operations, marketing, finance, HR and sales people who need answers, not a developer job,Small business owners who want to actually read their own numbers,Students and graduates aiming for analyst roles without a computer science degree,Anyone who has tried a Python data course and bounced off it

Career Paths After Completion

Business analyst, operations analyst or MIS roles
Business intelligence and reporting work
A stronger position in your current job as the person who can answer with data
A portfolio project that demonstrates the whole workflow end to end
A natural later step into Python or SQL if you ever want it

Course Guarantees

Title
Our Commitment to You
Items
No coding, at any point, and no bait and switch into programming,Real messy datasets throughout, not tidy teaching examples,AI taught honestly: a genuine accelerator, never treated as an authority,Your dashboards are critiqued as a colleague would critique them,A free demo class first, so you can judge the teaching before you pay anything

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