Professional Certificate in Data Analytics
Master the skills to clean, manipulate, analyse, and visualise data.
Course key facts
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Date
14 May - 26 December 2026
Duration
25 weeks
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Credits
Non credit bearing
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Format
Online
Fee
£3,995
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Location
Online
Overview
The Professional Certificate in Data Analytics will equip you with sought-after skills in data analysis, positioning you to take your analytics career to new heights.
This 25-week online programme will provide you with the skills necessary to clean, manipulate, analyse, and visualise data, and identify critical business insights. You will also establish a strong technical foundation with relevant business applications, and gain an analytical toolkit to help you succeed in a data-driven role.
Throughout this programme, you will benefit from the deep knowledge of our expert faculty, learn from video lectures and hands-on activities, and receive personal support from programme advisors to help propel your career in data analytics. Throughout the programme you will build a comprehensive portfolio for a business problem that highlights your analytics expertise, which you will be able to share with future employers.
You will finish the programme prepared to implement what you have learned, and with a verified Digital Certificate.
Learning journey
Getting Started with Data Analytics
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Module 1: What is Data Analytics?
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Module 2: What is the Role of a Data Analyst?
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Module 3: Getting Started with Python
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Module 4: Solving Real-World Problems with Python
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Module 5: Getting Started with SQL
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Module 6: Solving Real-World Problems with SQL
Course details
This Programme has been designed with the same careful balance of teaching, hands-on coursework and training that Imperial College London values across all of its programmes. As one of the top ten universities worldwide, Imperial drives global business and social transformation through the fusion of business, technology and an entrepreneurial mindset. We attract brilliant minds and provide the environment to foster innovative thinking, resulting in groundbreaking ideas that unlock business opportunities.
This online programme is suitable for:
- Early-career data professionals who wish to drive greater impact in their day-to-day work by building on their experience and gain a set of advanced analytical skills that can aid decision making.
- Recent STEM or business graduates who are looking to launch a career in data analytics and who wish to supplement their theoretical knowledge with practical experience in extracting meaningful insights from large quantities of data.
- Business or technology professionals seeking to acquire analytical skills to help make informed business decisions that improve profitability
This hands-on programme is meticulously crafted to equip you with practical skills in modern-day analytics, enabling you to tackle real-world business challenges effectively. You will gain expertise in extracting meaningful insights and driving your organisation towards its objectives by applying cutting-edge analytics. This programme will enable you to:
- Identify the full spectrum of data analytics characteristics and applications in order to understand its significance to organisational success.
- Use industry-standard tools to conduct exploratory and descriptive analyses of large data sets in order to identify meaningful information.
- Use predictive modelling to forecast outcomes and evaluate the merits of each to help your organisation solve problems and uncover new opportunities.
- Design and solve an optimisation problem from a data set and create meaningful strategic recommendations that you can communicate to stakeholders.
- Build a comprehensive portfolio for a business problem that highlights your analytics expertise to share with potential employers.
Upon successful completion of this programme, you will receive a verified digital certificate of completion via email.
Note: You will earn the Associate Alumni status upon successful completion of the programme. Visit the Associate Alumni page to find out more.
Take your partnership with Imperial to the next level by becoming an Associate Alumnus. Complete one (1) of our on-campus, online, and virtual programmes to claim 'Associate Alumnus' status and join our active alumni community.
Some of the benefits of becoming an Associate Alumnus include:
- Access to the Imperial Alumni LinkedIn group
- Invites to relevant events and webinars
- 25% Discount on future learning for yourself and up to three your colleagues
If you are interested in finding out more, contact us today!
Your instructors
Fintan Nagle
Cognitive Scientist, Senior Teaching FellowDr Fintan Nagle is a senior teaching fellow at Imperial Business School, where he teaches data science in the context of business analytics. His current research interests focus on knowledge representation. He is a cognitive scientist and software engineer with a background in computer science vision science, and machine learning. In addition to earning his PhD at University College London, Fintan has completed postdoctoral work in automated driving and co-founded several organisations.
Wolfram Wiesemann
Professor of Analytics & OperationsProfessor Wiesemann is Professor of Analytics & Operations at Imperial Business School, where he also serves as the Academic Director of the MSc Business Analytics programme. His teaching focuses on linear, discrete, and nonlinear optimisation and the theory, algorithms and applications of machine learning. He also teaches prescriptive analytics. Wolfram holds a joint master's degree in management and computing from Darmstadt University of Technology, and a PhD in operations research from Imperial London. He is also a Fellow of the KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics.
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Alex Ribeiro Castro
Data Scientist, Senior Teaching FellowDr Alex Ribeiro-Castro is a Data Scientist and Senior Teaching Fellow with the Operations Management Department at Imperial Business School. He also teaches on the Global Business Analytics MSc. In addition, he has more than 10 years of teaching experience in pure and applied mathematics at institutions across the globe. He has more than five years of consultancy experience, including machine learning and optimisation problems, in industries such as fintech, health, energy, and more recently in retail. Alex holds an MA and a PhD in mathematics from the University of California (Santa Cruz) and a professorship in mathematics from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio)
Contact us
José Rosário
Business Development Director – Open Programmes
- Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 3772
- Email: jose.rosario@imperial.ac.uk
