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The document outlines a comprehensive 6-phase roadmap for mastering data analytics skills over approximately 5 months, covering Excel, SQL, Power BI, and Python. Each phase includes specific goals, recommended courses, and practice activities, culminating in an end-to-end project and preparation for job applications. The final phase emphasizes building a portfolio and applying for data analyst positions.

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Roadmap

The document outlines a comprehensive 6-phase roadmap for mastering data analytics skills over approximately 5 months, covering Excel, SQL, Power BI, and Python. Each phase includes specific goals, recommended courses, and practice activities, culminating in an end-to-end project and preparation for job applications. The final phase emphasizes building a portfolio and applying for data analyst positions.

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🔹 Phase 1: Excel Mastery (2-3 Weeks)

📌 Goal: Build a strong foundation in data handling & analysis using Excel.
📖 Chapters & Topics:
✅ Basic Functions: SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, CONCATENATE​
✅ Data Cleaning: Remove duplicates, TRIM, PROPER, TEXT functions​
✅ Logical Functions: IF, AND, OR, IFERROR​
✅ Lookup & Reference: VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH​
✅ Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts: Summarizing large datasets​
✅ Data Validation & Conditional Formatting​
✅ Power Query: Automate data cleaning & transformations​
✅ Basic Data Visualization: Charts & Graphs
📌 Recommended Course:​
🎥 Excel for Data Analysis - Coursera
📌 Practice: Work on real datasets (e.g., Sales or HR data).

🔹 Phase 2: SQL for Data Analysis (3-4 Weeks)


📌 Goal: Learn how to query and manipulate data in databases.
📖 Chapters & Topics:
✅ SQL Basics: SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY, DISTINCT​
✅ Filtering & Aggregations: GROUP BY, HAVING, COUNT, SUM, AVG​
✅ Joins & Relationships: INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, FULL JOIN​
✅ Subqueries & CTEs: Common Table Expressions​
✅ Window Functions: ROW_NUMBER, RANK, DENSE_RANK, LEAD, LAG​
✅ Data Cleaning in SQL: Handling NULL values, String Functions, Date Functions​
✅ Indexes & Performance Optimization​
✅ Case Study: Build a complete Sales Data Analysis in SQL
📌 Recommended Course:​
🎥 SQL for Data Science – Udacity
📌 Practice:
●​ Work on Kaggle datasets​
●​ Solve SQL challenges on LeetCode​

🔹 Phase 3: Power BI / Tableau for Data Visualization (3-4 Weeks)


📌 Goal: Learn how to create interactive dashboards & reports.
📖 Chapters & Topics:
✅ Connecting Data Sources (Excel, SQL, APIs)​
✅ Data Cleaning & Transformation (Power Query)​
✅ Creating Basic Visuals: Bar, Line, Pie, Maps​
✅ Filters & Slicers: Interactive dashboard elements​
✅ DAX (Data Analysis Expressions): Calculated Columns, Measures, SUMX, CALCULATE​
✅ Creating Relationships & Data Modeling​
✅ Building a Sales Dashboard
📌 Recommended Course:​
🎥 Power BI Fundamentals - Udemy
📌 Practice:
●​ Create a Power BI dashboard using your SQL queries.​

🔹 Phase 4: Python for Data Analysis (4-6 Weeks)


📌 Goal: Master Python for data cleaning, analysis & visualization.
📖 Chapters & Topics:
✅ Python Basics: Variables, Loops, Functions​
✅ Data Manipulation with Pandas: DataFrames, Filtering, Aggregations​
✅ Data Cleaning: Handling Missing Data, Duplicates, String Operations​
✅ Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA):
●​ Matplotlib & Seaborn: Data Visualization​

●​ NumPy: Numerical Computation​

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●​ Scipy & Statsmodels: Basic Statistics​
Advanced Analysis: GroupBy, Pivot Tables, Multi-Indexing​
✅ Automating Reports with Python​
✅ Case Study: Sales Forecasting using Python​
📌 Recommended Course:​
🎥 Python for Data Science – Coursera
📌 Practice:
●​ Work on real datasets from Kaggle​

●​ Try Jupyter Notebook for hands-on coding​

🔹 Phase 5: End-to-End Data Analytics Project (2-3 Weeks)


📌 Goal: Apply all your skills (Excel, SQL, Power BI, Python) in a real-world scenario.
Project Idea: Amazon Sales Analysis

1️⃣ Extract data from a database (SQL)​


2️⃣ Clean & analyze data (Excel, SQL, Python)​
3️⃣ Build a visualization dashboard (Power BI)​
4️⃣ Generate insights & recommendations

📌 Example Dataset:​
🔗 Amazon Sales Data – Kaggle

🔹 Phase 6: Resume, Portfolio & Job Applications (2-3 Weeks)


📌 Goal: Build a portfolio, update your resume, and start applying!
📖 Steps:
✅ Upload your projects on GitHub & Tableau Public​
✅ Create a strong LinkedIn profile​
✅ Practice SQL & Python interview questions​
✅ Apply for 50+ Data Analyst jobs on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor
📌 Where to Apply?
●​ 🔹 LinkedIn Jobs​
●​ 🔹 Indeed​
●​ 🔹 Glassdoor​
📌 Interview Preparation:
●​ SQL Challenges: LeetCode SQL​

●​ Data Analyst Case Studies: Maven Analytics​

📌 Final Roadmap Summary (Total ~5 Months)


Phase Skill Duration

1 Excel 2-3 Weeks

2 SQL 3-4 Weeks

3 Power BI 3-4 Weeks

4 Python 4-6 Weeks

5 Project 2-3 Weeks

6 Portfolio & Job Hunt 2-3 Weeks

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