Data & Operations path
Data Analytics Professional
Turn data into dashboards managers use. Clean messy business data, answer the questions managers actually ask, and put the answers on a dashboard they open every week.
- 12 weeks, liveDuration
- ₦650,000Fee
- All LevelsLevel
- Bootcamp12 Weeks

Is this course for you?
- Career pivoters from banking, finance, education or admin who already work with spreadsheets
- Recent graduates who want a skill Nigerian employers list in job posts
- Operations, sales and finance staff who produce reports by hand every week
- You already analyse data and want AI assistants in your workflow
What you need
- A laptop (Windows is easiest for Power BI Desktop; Mac users can use Power BI in the browser and Looker Studio)
- Everyday Excel or Google Sheets: sorting, filtering and simple formulas
- Reliable internet and data for live sessions
- No statistics or coding background needed
Week by week
- Weeks 1–2
Start from the business question
- Interview a mock manager and turn vague requests into three measurable questions
- Clean and reshape messy sales and customer data in Excel and Google Sheets
- Build pivot tables and lookup formulas that answer the first questions
- Weeks 3–5
Query data with SQL
- Write SQL queries to filter, join and group data in PostgreSQL and BigQuery
- Use window functions for running totals, rankings and month-on-month change
- Check every AI-drafted query against a small sample you can verify by hand
- Weeks 6–8
Build dashboards in Power BI
- Model data into facts and dimensions so the numbers add up
- Write DAX measures for revenue, margin, targets and growth
- Design a one-page dashboard a busy manager can read in thirty seconds
- Publish to the Power BI service and schedule a refresh
- Week 9
Report for free with Looker Studio
- Connect Google Sheets, Google Analytics and BigQuery to Looker Studio
- Build a shareable marketing and web performance report
- Week 10
Automate the weekly report
- Automate a manual weekly report with Power Query and scheduled refreshes
- Use Python (pandas) in a notebook for one cleaning job that spreadsheets struggle with
- Weeks 11–12
Present insight and ship the capstone
- Write a one-page insight memo with three findings and one recommendation
- Present your dashboard to a mock management meeting and handle questions
- Document your data sources, definitions and refresh schedule for handover
What you walk away with
A weekly sales dashboard in Power BI, e.g. for a Lagos distribution company, that replaces a manually compiled daily sales report
An online-store performance report in Looker Studio, e.g. orders, repeat customers and delivery zones for a small e-commerce brand
A SQL case study with the questions, queries, checks and a one-page insight memo for managers
The tools you’ll use
- Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
- SQL (PostgreSQL and Google BigQuery)
- Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service
- Looker Studio
- Power Query
- Python with pandas in Jupyter or Google Colab
- Copilot in Power BI and Excel, Gemini in Sheets, ChatGPT or Claude
How AI fits your workflow
You use AI to go faster on the mechanical parts: drafting SQL and DAX, suggesting cleaning steps, and summarising a table. Then you prove it is right by checking results against numbers you can verify by hand. Interpreting the numbers and telling a manager what to do next stays your job, and it is the part employers value most.
Career routes
- Junior data or business intelligence analyst
- Reporting analyst in finance, sales or operations
- Freelance dashboard builder for SMEs
- Existing staff: the person who automates the weekly reports
Small live classes where you do the work
Live reviews
Someone who does this work reviews yours, on screen.
Practice sandboxes
Safe environments where mistakes cost nothing.
Private Discord
Help between sessions when you are stuck.
Career routes
Help planning your route to a job or paid work.
Portfolio work
Projects employers and clients can inspect.
Not included: laptop, data, optional tool plans, exam fees.
Data Analytics Professional: your questions answered
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