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.
Syllabus updated July 2026
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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
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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.
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Transform your career with industry-ready skills and job placement support.
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