Professional Certificate Programme in Advanced Data Analytics for Managers
- Mode of learning: Live online sessions
- Duration: 4 months
- Class schedule: Weekend
Advance your career with the Certification in Advanced Data Analytics for Managers

Programme Highlights
Live Weekend Classes
Real-World Focus
Hands-On Tools
Capstone Project
Industry-Ready Curriculum
Executive Alumni Benefits
Who Is This Programme For?
Early to Mid-Level Finance Professionals
Business Analysts, Investment Analysts, and Risk Managers
Entrepreneurs and FoundersOn Tools
Working Professionals
MBA Graduates and Aspiring CFOs
Program Objective
Equip participants with a deep understanding
Bridge the knowledge gap
Enable professionals
Foster analytical thinking
Prepare participants
Program Curriculum
- Introduction to the R Environment
- IDE-R Studio
- Installing Packages
- Loading Packages
- Creating Variables
- Scalars, Vectors and Matrices
- List, Data Frames and Data Types
- Converting Between Vector Types
- Cbind and
- Rbind
- Attach and Detach Functions
- Reading .csv and .txt Files
- Importing Data from Excel
- Loading and Storing Data with a Clipboard
- Saving in R Data, Loading R Data Objects
- Writing Data into the File
- Writing Text and Output from Analysis to File
- Rmarkdown
- Data Subsets
- Selecting Rows/observations
- Rounding a Number
- Creating a String from Variable
- Factor Labels
- Selecting Columns/fields
- Merging Data
- Relabelling the Column Names
- Data sorting, Data Aggregation, and Finding and Removing Duplicate Records
- Application of dplyr Package (select, arrange, mutate, aggregate, summarise, and group)
Note:
- Modules/ topics are indicative only, and the suggested time and sequence may be dropped/ modified/ adapted to fit the overall
program needs.
- Schedule will be announced closer to programme start. The recorded videos and learning material will be available throughout the duration of the programme
- Basics of Data Visualisation using ggplot2
- Aesthetic Mappings
- Common Problems
- Facets
- Geometric Objects
- Position Adjustments
- Coordinate Systems
- The Layered Grammar of Graphics
- Combining Plots
- Execution of Various Types of Plots (box plot, histogram, pie chart, line chart, scatterplot, word
cloud, probability plots, mosaic plots, correlograms, and interactive graphs)
- Data Cleaning
- Handling Missing Data
- Data Imputation
- Feature Filtering
- Categorical Feature Filtering
- Identifying Misclassification
- Data Transformation
- Min-max Normalisation
- Z-score
- Standardisation
- Decimal Scaling
- Transformations to Achieve Normality
- Outliers
- Graphical Methods for Identifying Outliers
- Numerical Methods for Identifying Outliers
- Flag Variables
- Transforming Categorical Variables into Numerical Variables
- Binning Numerical Variables Reclassifying Categorical Variables
- Adding an Index Field
- Removing Variables that are not useful
- Data Balancing Techniques
Note:
- Modules/ topics are indicative only, and the suggested time and sequence may be dropped/ modified/ adapted to fit the overall
program needs.
- Schedule will be announced closer to programme start. The recorded videos and learning material will be available throughout the duration of the programme.
- Hypothesis Testing versus Exploratory Data Analysis
- Getting to Know the Data Set
- Exploring Categorical Variables
- Exploring Numeric Variables
- Exploring Multivariate Relationships
- Selecting Interesting Subsets of the Data for Further Investigation
- Using EDA to Uncover Anomalous Fields
- Binning Based on Predictive Value
- Deriving New Variables: Flag Variables
- Deriving New Variables: Numerical Variables
- Using EDA to Investigate Correlated Predictor Variables
- Need for Dimension-Reduction in Data Mining
- Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
- Application of PCA
- Statistical Inference
- Confidence Interval Estimation of the Mean
- The Margin of Error
- Confidence Interval Estimation of the Proportion
- Hypothesis Testing for the Mean
- Assessing the Strength of Evidence Against the Null Hypothesis
- Using Confidence Intervals to Perform Hypothesis Tests
- One-sample T-test
- Paired Sample T-test
- Chi-square Test for Goodness of Fit of Multinomial Data
- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Note:
- Modules/ topics are indicative only, and the suggested time and sequence may be dropped/ modified/ adapted to fit the overall
program needs.
- Schedule will be announced closer to programme start. The recorded videos and learning material will be available throughout the duration of the programme.
- Supervised Versus Unsupervised Methods
- Statistical Methodology and Data Mining Methodology
- Cross-validation
- Overfitting
- Bias-variance Trade-off
- Balancing the Training Data set
- Establishing Baseline Performance
- Simple Regression Analysis
- Model Formulation
- Verifying the Regression Assumptions
- Inference in Regression
- Multiple Regression Analysis
- Dummy Variable
- Stepwise Regression Analyses
- k-nearest Neighbour Algorithm
- Decision Tree Random Forest
- Neural Networks for Estimation and Prediction
- Application of Logistic Regression for Estimation and Prediction
- Naïve bayes and Bayesian Networks
- Hierarchical Clustering Methods
- k-Means Clustering
- Measuring Cluster Goodness
- Affinity Analysis
- Market Basket Analysis
Note:
- Modules/ topics are indicative only, and the suggested time and sequence may be dropped/ modified/ adapted to fit the overall
program needs.
- Schedule will be announced closer to programme start. The recorded videos and learning material will be available throughout the duration of the programme.
- Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis
- Social Media Analytics (Twitter)
- Lexicon Analysis
- Social Network Analysis
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