Python is a general-purpose programming language that is becoming ever more popular for data science. Companies worldwide are using Python to harvest insights from their data and gain a competitive edge. Unlike other Python tutorials, this course focuses on Python specifically for data science. In our Introduction to Python course, you’ll learn about powerful ways to store and manipulate data, and helpful data science tools to begin conducting your own analyses. Start DataCamp’s online Python curriculum now.

Master the basics of data analysis in Python. Expand your skillset by learning scientific computing with NumPy.

Discover how to use Python for data science, learning about the ways to store and manipulate data in the environment to begin conducting your own analyses.

Introduction to Python

The role of a data scientist is to turn raw data into actionable insights. Much of the world's raw data—from electronic medical records to customer transaction histories—lives in organized collections of tables called relational databases. To be an effective data scientist, you must know how to wrangle and extract data from these databases using a language called SQL . This course teaches syntax in SQL shared by many types of databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle. This course teaches you everything you need to know to begin working with databases today!

Master the basics of querying tables in relational databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Learn the basics of syntax in SQL, how to extract and wrangle data, and use querying tables in relational databases like MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Introduction to SQL

In this introduction to R course, you'll master the basics of this widely used open source language&mdash;including vectors, factors, lists, and data frames. With the coding skills you'll gain in this course, you'll be ready to undertake your own data analysis in R. There are millions of R users worldwide, cementing it as a leading programming language in statistics and data science. More and more organizations are using R, so begin your coding journey in one of DataCamp's most popular courses today!

Master the basics of data analysis by manipulating common data structures such as vectors, matrices, and data frames.

DataCamp's Into to R training course teaches you how to use R programming for data science at your own pace with video tutorials & interactive challenges.

Introduction to R Online

Introduction to R

What is data science, why is it so popular, and why did the Harvard Business Review hail it as the “sexiest job of the 21st century”? In this non-technical course, you’ll be introduced to everything you were ever too afraid to ask about this fast-growing and exciting field, without needing to write a single line of code. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn about the different data scientist roles, foundational topics like A/B testing, time series analysis, and machine learning, and how data scientists extract knowledge and insights from real-world data. So don’t be put off by the buzzwords. Start learning, gain skills in this hugely in-demand field, and discover why data science is for everyone!

An introduction to data science with no coding involved.

Discover what data science is, why it's so popular, and learn how to do it with hand-on exercises. There is no code required in this introductory course. 

Data Science for Everyone

Learning Python is crucial for any aspiring data science practitioner. Learn to visualize real data with Matplotlib's functions and get acquainted with data structures such as the dictionary and the pandas DataFrame. After covering key concepts such as boolean logic, control flow, and loops in Python, you'll be ready to blend together everything you've learned to solve a case study using hacker statistics.

Level up your data science skills by creating visualizations using Matplotlib and manipulating DataFrames with pandas.

In this intermediate Python course, learn to visualize real data with Matplotlib's functions and get to know new data structures such as the pandas DataFrame.

Intermediate Python

In 2019, the average salary for data engineers overtook data scientists. How did this happen? Companies wanting to find the gold within their data realized it wasn’t possible if they hadn’t yet built the mine. Data engineers lay the foundations that make data science possible.
 
In this course, you’ll learn about a data engineer’s core responsibilities, how they differ from data scientists, and facilitate the flow of data through an organization. Through hands-on exercises you’ll follow Spotflix, a fictional music streaming company, to understand how their data engineers collect, clean, and catalog their data. By the end of the course, you’ll understand what your company's data engineers do, be ready to have a conversation with a data engineer, and have a solid foundation to start your own data engineer journey.

Discover how data engineers lay the groundwork that makes data science possible. No coding involved!

Data Engineering for Everyone

What's behind the machine learning hype? In this non-technical course, you’ll learn everything you’ve been too afraid to ask about machine learning. There’s no coding required. Hands-on exercises will help you get past the jargon and learn how this exciting technology powers everything from self-driving cars to your personal Amazon shopping suggestions.

How does machine learning work, when can you use it, and what is the difference between AI and machine learning? They’re all covered. Gain skills in this hugely in-demand and influential field, and discover why machine learning is for everyone!


An introduction to machine learning with no coding involved.

Discover what machine learning is, how it works, and how you can use it through hands-on exercise. There is no need to know how to code to learn about ML.

Machine Learning for Everyone

Visualizing data using charts, graphs, and maps is one of the most impactful ways to communicate complex data. In this course, you’ll learn how to choose the best visualization for your dataset, and how to interpret common plot types like histograms, scatter plots, line plots and bar plots. You'll also learn about best practices for using colors and shapes in your plots, and how to avoid common pitfalls. Through hands-on exercises, you'll visually explore over 20 datasets including global life expectancies, Los Angeles home prices, ESPN's 100 most famous athletes, and the greatest hip-hop songs of all time.

An introduction to data visualization with no coding involved.

Learn how to visualize your data using charts, graphs and maps as well as how to interpret common plot time, best practices for colors, shapes, and more.

Data Visualization for Everyone

This course will dig deeper into some of the core functionality of Google Sheets. There's a whole bunch of predefined functions we'll cover, like `SUM()` and `AVERAGE()`, and `VLOOKUP()`. We'll apply these techniques to do some analysis on your grades in school, look at performance statistics within a company, track monthly sales, and look at some real geographical information about the countries of the world.

Learn how to analyze data with spreadsheets using functions such as SUM(), AVERAGE(), and VLOOKUP().

Data Analysis in Spreadsheets

Every day we interact with the cloud—whether it’s using Google Drive, apps like Salesforce, or accessing our favorite websites. Cloud computing has become the norm for many companies, but what exactly is the cloud and why is everyone rushing to adopt it? Designed for absolute novices, this course breaks down what the cloud is and explains terminology such as scalability, latency, and high-availability. You'll learn about the many advantages including ease of remote collaboration, how there are no hardware limitations, and reliable disaster recovery. You'll also discover the range of tools provided by major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. By the end of this course, you'll be able to confidently explain how cloud tools can increase productivity and save money, as well as ask the right questions about how to optimize your use of cloud tools.

A non-coding introduction to the world of cloud computing.

Discover what the cloud is, how it works, and what its benefits are. You’ll also learn about terminology like scalability, latency, and high availability.

Cloud Computing for Everyone

What is data science and how can you use it to strengthen your organization? This course will teach you about the skills you need on your data team, and how you can structure that team to meet your organization's needs. Data is everywhere! This course will provide you with an understanding of data sources your company can use and how to store that data. You'll also discover ways to analyze and visualize your data through dashboards and A/B tests. To wrap up the course, we'll discuss exciting topics in machine learning, including clustering, time series prediction, natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and explainable AI! Along the way, you'll learn about a variety of real-world applications of data science and gain a better understanding of these concepts through practical exercises.

Learn about data science and how can you use it to strengthen your organization. 

Data Science for Business

This course will expand your Google Sheets vocabulary. You'll dive deeper into data types, practice manipulating numeric and logical data, explore missing data and error types, and calculate some summary statistics. As you go, you'll explore datasets on 100m sprint world records, asteroid close encounters, benefit claims, and butterflies.

Expand your spreadsheets vocabulary by diving deeper into data types, including numeric data, logical data, and missing data.

Learn about Google Sheets by practicing manipulating numeric and logical data, exploring missing data and error types, and calculating summary statistics.

Intermediate Spreadsheets

Working with large quantities of data in spreadsheets can be difficult and time-consuming. Have you ever wished there was a quick and efficient way to organize and evaluate your data within seconds? Pivot Tables are your answer! In this course we will explore the world of Pivot Tables within Google Sheets, and learn how to quickly organize thousands of datapoints with just a few clicks of the mouse. We will analyze the Average rainfall across multiple US cities, the Top 10 of the Fortune Global 500, and a selection of Films released between 2010 and 2016. You will learn techniques such as sorting, subtotaling, and filtering your data using these real world examples. By the end of the course, you will be able to create your own custom pivot tables with datasets of any size!

Explore the world of Pivot Tables within Google Sheets, and learn how to quickly organize thousands of data points with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Pivot Tables in Spreadsheets

Statistics is the science that deals with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. Having a solid foundation in statistics will help you effectively work with your data to test hypotheses and uncover insights that can help solve your problems. This course is designed to give you that foundation in statistics. Using Spreadsheets functions, you'll dive into averages, distributions, hypothesis testing, and conclude the course by applying your newfound knowledge in a case study. Along the way, you'll work with a variety of datasets ranging from eBay auctions to train ridership to historical presidential approval ratings. Enjoy!

Learn how to leverage statistical techniques using spreadsheets to more effectively work with and extract insights from your data.

Introduction to Statistics in Spreadsheets

A picture can tell a thousand words - but only if you use the right picture! This course teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization with Google Sheets. You'll learn how to create common chart types like bar charts, histograms, and scatter charts, as well as more advanced types, such as sparkline and candlestick charts. You will look at how to prepare your data and use Data Validation and VLookup formulas to target specific data to chart. You'll learn how to use Conditional Formatting to apply a format to a cell or a range of cells based on certain criteria, and finally, how to create a dashboard showing plots and data together. Along the way, you'll use data from the Olympics, sharks attacks, and Marine Technology from the ASX.

Learn the fundamentals of data visualization using spreadsheets. 

Learn how to create different chart types, from bar charts, histograms, and scatter charts, to advanced sparkline and candlestick charts in Google Sheets.

Data Visualization in Spreadsheets

Monitoring the evolution of traded assets is key in finance. In this course, you will learn how to build a graphical dashboard with spreadsheets to track the performance of financial securities. You will focus on historical prices and dividends of the hypothetical stock ABC. You will learn how to visualize its prices, how to measure essential reward and risk indicators, and see if your investment in ABC outperformed a benchmark index. At the end of the course, you should be able to use spreadsheets to build great monitoring tools used by traders and financial analysts in their day-to-day business life!

Learn how to build a graphical dashboard with spreadsheets to track the performance of financial securities.

Learn how you can build a graphical dashboard with spreadsheets to monitor the performance of financial securities used by traders and financial analysts.

Financial Analytics in Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are an essential tool for any marketing professional, but how does one keep these spreadsheets clean and accurate - especially when multiple parties contribute data? Data validation and regular expressions are powerful tools for marketing analysts, but having clean data is only half the battle. After we learn how to clean the data, we will visualize it by building charts! Throughout the course, we will explore a dataset that includes the kind of information you will encounter in the world of digital marketing. We will spot errors in metrics using data validation, use regular expressions to aggregate campaign metrics, build charts to analyze campaign performance, and use everything we've learned to build a dynamic dashboard!

Learn how to ensure clean data entry and build dynamic dashboards to display your marketing data.

Marketing Analytics in Spreadsheets

Have you ever wanted to plan for retirement, understand the stock market, or create a cash flow for your business? In this course, you will learn how to build business and financial models in Sheets. Google Sheets is an excellent technology for business models! You can create a framework for your goal, like understanding the growth of investments, and then update that framework based on current data. You will learn the basics of business modeling focusing on cash flows, investments, annuities, loan amortization, and saving for retirement. By the end of the course, you will have gained referencing and function skills in Sheets that you can apply to all sorts of models.

Learn basic business modeling including cash flows, investments, annuities, loan amortization, and more using Sheets.

Learn the basics of business modeling using Google Sheets, focusing on cash flows, investments, annuities, loan amortization, and saving for retirement.

Financial Modeling in Spreadsheets

You rely on predictions every day: you might check the weather app before choosing your outfit or peek at the traffic before starting your commute. Perhaps you are responsible for setting your organization’s strategy in the future. Do you find yourself wondering how accurate predictions are, how you can see into the future, and why the weatherman always seems to be wrong? In our Error and Uncertainty course, you’ll make some predictions yourself, learn to distinguish real differences from random noise, and explore psychological crutches we use that interfere with our rational decision making. You will uncover patterns in Seattle crime data, predict students’ final grades, prevent Nashville traffic accidents, and determine whether a bakery’s menu needs to change. Join us! We’re certain you’ll enjoy learning about error and uncertainty.

Learn to distinguish real differences from random noise, and explore psychological crutches we use that interfere with our rational decision making.

Error and uncertainty in spreadsheets

Error and Uncertainty in Spreadsheets

A loan amortization schedule sounds like something that's only used by bankers and financial traders, right? Wrong! In this course, we'll be looking at the key financial formulas in Google Sheets that you can use to investigate your own loans, like student loans, car loans, and mortgages. We'll build up a dashboard in Google Sheets which uses visualizations and conditional formulas to produce presentation-ready spreadsheets which will impress any finance manager!

Learn how to build an amortization dashboard in spreadsheets with financial and conditional formulas.

Loan Amortization in Spreadsheets

Learn the spreadsheet skills you need to make data-driven financial decisions. In this track, you’ll learn to build dashboards to track financial securities performance, measure reward and risk indicators, and create investment models. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll create impressive visualizations and use conditional formulas to produce presentation-ready spreadsheets. You’ll then flex your financial muscles as you focus on cash flows, investments, annuities, saving for retirement, and even how to create a loan amortization schedule to track your own loans. By the end of the track, you'll be ready to build monitoring tools, as used by traders and financial analysts and navigate the world of finance using Google Sheets.

Grow your financial spreadsheet skills. Learn how to build basic business models, use financial formulas, and create loan amortization schedules. 

in Spreadsheets

Finance Fundamentals

Save yourself hours when working with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and gain spreadsheet skills you can use every day. 

In this track, you’ll learn time-saving methods such as data validation and gain a foundation of statistical concepts to quickly calculate averages and analyze data. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll expand your spreadsheet mastery and create impressive visualizations, including histograms, scatter plots, and bar plots. You’ll also leverage your data validation skills and more advanced techniques such as regular expressions to create your own marketing dashboard using real-world digital marketing data.

Expand your spreadsheet skills. Learn how data validation, statistics, and regular expressions can save you time with Excel and Sheets!

Join millions of people using Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel on a daily basis and learn the fundamental skills necessary to analyze data in spreadsheets! The skills you learn in these courses will empower you to join tables, summarize data, and answer your data analysis and data science questions.

Become a spreadsheet master. Learn the core skills you need to analyze data using Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel.

Spreadsheet Fundamentals

In this track, you’ll gain the fundamental skills you need to speak the language of data. There’s no prior knowledge or coding skills required. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to understand data, whether it’s a bar plot on the news or as a statistic shared during a work meeting. You’ll expand your knowledge of key data topics, including data science, machine learning, data visualization, and even data engineering and cloud computing. You'll also learn about the many roles, technologies, and frameworks in data science. By the end of this track, you’ll have the skills you need to confidently interpret data and incorporate it into your daily life.

Data literacy isn't just for data specialists; it's a fundamental life skill that everyone needs.

Data Literacy Fundamentals

Intermediate R is the next stop on your journey in mastering the R programming language. In this R training, you will learn about conditional statements, loops, and functions to power your own R scripts. Next, make your R code more efficient and readable using the apply functions. Finally, the utilities chapter gets you up to speed with regular expressions in R, data structure manipulations, and times and dates. This course will allow you to take the next step in advancing your overall knowledge and capabilities while programming in R.

Continue your journey to becoming an R ninja by learning about conditional statements, loops, and vector functions.

Discover conditional statements, loops, and functions to power your own R scripts, and learn to make your R code more efficient using the apply functions.

Intermediate R

It's time to push forward and develop your Python chops even further. There are tons of fantastic functions in Python and its library ecosystem. However, as a data scientist, you'll constantly need to write your own functions to solve problems that are dictated by your data. You will learn the art of function writing in this first Python Data Science Toolbox course. You'll come out of this course being able to write your very own custom functions, complete with multiple parameters and multiple return values, along with default arguments and variable-length arguments. You'll gain insight into scoping in Python and be able to write lambda functions and handle errors in your function writing practice. And you'll wrap up each chapter by using your new skills to write functions that analyze Twitter DataFrames.

Learn the art of writing your own functions in Python, as well as key concepts like scoping and error handling.

Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 1)

Now that you've learned the basics of SQL in our <a href="https://learn.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-sql">Introduction to SQL</a> course, it's time to supercharge your queries using joins and relational set theory. In this course, you'll learn all about the power of joining tables while exploring interesting features of countries and their cities throughout the world. You will master inner and outer joins, as well as self joins, semi joins, anti joins and cross joins—fundamental tools in any PostgreSQL wizard's toolbox. Never fear set theory again after learning all about unions, intersections, and except clauses through easy-to-understand diagrams and examples. Lastly, you'll be introduced to the challenging topic of subqueries. You will be able to visually grasp these ideas by using Venn diagrams and other linking illustrations.

Join two or three tables together into one, combine tables using set theory, and work with subqueries in PostgreSQL.

Discover all the fundamental in PostgreSQL, like inner, outer self, semi, anti, and cross joins, as well as unions, intersections, and except clauses.

Joining Data in SQL

Begin your journey into Data Science! Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you'll be able to follow this course and witness the power of Python to perform Data Science. You'll use data to solve the mystery of Bayes, the kidnapped Golden Retriever, and along the way you'll become familiar with basic Python syntax and popular Data Science modules like Matplotlib (for charts and graphs) and pandas (for tabular data).

Dive into data science using Python and learn how to effectively analyze and visualize your data. No coding experience or skills needed.

Dive into data science using Python and learn how to effectively analyze and visualize your data using Pandas and Matplotlib. No coding experience needed.

Introduction to Data Science in Python

Tableau is a widely used business intelligence (BI) and analytics software trusted by companies like Amazon, Experian, and Unilever to explore, visualize, and securely share data in the form of Workbooks and Dashboards. With its user-friendly drag-and-drop functionality it can be used by everyone to quickly clean, analyze, and visualize your team’s data.

You’ll learn how to navigate Tableau’s interface and connect and present data using easy-to-understand visualizations. By the end of this training, you’ll have the skills you need to confidently explore Tableau and build impactful data dashboards. Let’s dive in.

Get started with Tableau, a widely used business intelligence (BI) and analytics software to explore, visualize, and securely share data.

Learn to navigate Tableau’s interface, connect and present data, and build easy-to-understand visualizations to build impactful dashboards for business.

Introduction to Tableau

Gain a 360° overview of exploring and using Power BI to build impactful reports. In this course, you’ll go from zero to hero as you discover how to use this popular business intelligence platform through hands-on exercises. Before diving into creating visualizations using Power BI's drag-and-drop functionality, you’ll first learn how to confidently load and transform data using Power Query and the importance of data models. You’ll also learn to drill down into reports and make your reports fully interactive. You've got the power!

Gain a 360° overview of how to explore and use Power BI to build impactful reports.

Learn how to use the Power BI platform to load and transform data, create visualzations, run DAX formulas, and create reports through hands-on exercises.

Introduction to Power BI

Confused about NoSQL and how it differs from SQL? You've come to the right place!
 
 
In this conceptual course (no coding required), you’ll be introduced to learn the four major NoSQL databases, including key-value, document, column family, and graph. You’ll learn about four popular NoSQL engines—including Redis, MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, and Neo4j—and when to apply them to achieve a specific business requirement. You’ll follow the data escapades of a fictional social network and learn how NoSQL can help them handle and extract insights from unstructured data like social posts. Lastly, you’ll study real use cases of when NoSQL databases were used—giving you the knowledge you need to effectively store data in any situation.

In this conceptual course (no coding required), you will learn about the four major NoSQL databases and popular engines.

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