Data & Analytics training courses
Move from raw data to decisions with analytics, visualisation and reporting.
Delivered in-house at your premises, as public sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Dubai and London, or live online. Courses run 2 Days, 3 Days, 5 Days, from R10,000 per delegate.
Data Analysis and Visualisation with Excel
Excel remains the most widely used analysis tool in business, and few use it to its full potential. This course takes participants beyond basic formulas into structured analysis, PivotTables, and clear charts that reveal what the numbers mean.
Power BI for Business Intelligence and Reporting
Power BI turns scattered data into interactive reports that decision-makers can explore for themselves. This course guides participants from connecting data sources through building models to publishing dashboards that stay current.
Introduction to Data Analytics for Decision Making
This course demystifies data analytics for professionals who need to use data but are not specialists. Participants learn how to ask the right questions, interpret results, and use evidence to support better decisions.
SQL for Data Analysis and Reporting
SQL is the standard language for extracting and analysing data held in databases. This hands-on course builds the querying skills needed to pull, filter, combine, and summarise data directly from source systems.
Data Visualisation and Dashboard Design
A good chart makes an insight obvious; a poor one hides it. This course teaches the principles of effective visual communication and how to design dashboards that guide the eye to what matters.
Statistical Analysis for Business Professionals
Statistics gives professionals the tools to move from guesswork to evidence. This course builds a practical understanding of core statistical methods and how to apply and interpret them in a business context.
Data-Driven Decision Making for Managers
Managers are increasingly expected to lead with evidence rather than instinct. This course helps leaders ask the right questions of their data, challenge analysis constructively, and build a culture where decisions rest on facts.
Data Cleaning and Preparation Techniques
Most of the effort in analytics goes into getting data ready, not analysing it. This practical workshop teaches the techniques needed to clean, structure, and validate data so that analysis rests on a solid foundation.
Predictive Analytics and Forecasting Fundamentals
Looking ahead with data helps organisations plan rather than react. This course introduces the practical foundations of forecasting and predictive analytics, showing how past patterns can inform future estimates.
Building KPI Dashboards and Performance Reports
Performance measures only help when they are visible and understood. This course covers how to select meaningful indicators and build dashboards and reports that track them clearly for managers and teams.
Introduction to Python for Data Analysis
Python has become a leading tool for analysing data at scale. This hands-on course introduces the language and its core data libraries, taking participants from the basics to working with real data sets.
Data Governance and Quality Management
Analytics is only as trustworthy as the data behind it. This course introduces the practices that keep organisational data accurate, consistent, and well managed, from ownership and standards to quality monitoring.
Advanced Excel Modelling and Analytics
This advanced programme extends Excel into serious analysis and modelling. Participants master complex formulas, data tools, and modelling techniques that turn Excel into a capable analytics environment.
Big Data Concepts for Business Leaders
Leaders do not need to be engineers to make sound decisions about data. This course explains the concepts, opportunities, and risks of big data in plain terms so managers can set direction with confidence.
Survey Design and Data Collection Methods
Good analysis begins with good data collection. This course covers how to design surveys and collection tools that produce reliable, unbiased data, and how to gather it ethically and efficiently.
Data Storytelling and Communicating Insights
An insight that no one understands changes nothing. This workshop teaches analysts to turn findings into a clear narrative that persuades decision-makers and prompts action.
Financial Data Analysis and Reporting
Financial data holds vital signals about how an organisation is performing. This course helps participants analyse financial information, spot trends and anomalies, and produce reports that inform sound financial decisions.
Machine Learning Concepts for Analysts
Machine learning is reshaping analytics, and analysts need to understand its foundations. This course explains the main concepts and methods in accessible terms and shows where they fit within practical analysis work.
Operational Analytics and Process Improvement
Data can reveal exactly where processes lose time, money, and quality. This course shows how to use operational data to find bottlenecks, measure improvement, and support decisions that make work run better.
Data Ethics, Privacy and Responsible Analytics
The power of analytics carries real responsibility. This course examines the ethical and privacy questions that surround data work and offers practical guidance for handling data fairly, lawfully, and transparently.
Google Sheets and Cloud-Based Data Analysis
Cloud spreadsheets let teams analyse and share data together in real time. This course builds practical skills in Google Sheets, from formulas and functions to collaborative analysis and connected data.
Data Warehouse and Reporting Architecture
Reporting becomes unreliable when every team builds its own version of the numbers. This course covers how data is modelled, loaded and served so that reporting is consistent, fast and traceable back to source.
Experiment Design and A/B Testing
Most business experiments produce results that do not mean what people think they mean. This course covers how to design a valid test, size it properly and interpret the outcome without fooling yourself.
Geographic Information and Location Analytics
A great deal of operational data has a location attached that is never used. This course covers how to work with spatial data, map it correctly and answer the questions that only location analysis can answer.
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Forecasting demand, cost or volume requires methods built for data that moves through time. This course covers decomposition, the main forecasting families and how to judge whether a forecast is good enough to plan on.
Data Analysis for Auditors
Sampling misses what full population analysis finds immediately. This course shows auditors how to interrogate whole datasets for the exceptions, duplicates and patterns that indicate error or fraud.
Customer Analytics and Segmentation
Treating every customer the same wastes money on some and loses others. This course covers building segments from behaviour rather than assumption, and measuring customer value over the whole relationship.
Data Modelling for Analysts
Analysis becomes unreliable when the underlying data structure is misunderstood. This course covers reading and building data models, understanding grain and relationships, and avoiding the joins that silently duplicate rows.
Automating Reports and Data Workflows
Analysts lose days each month rebuilding the same reports by hand. This course covers automating the repetitive parts of data work so that recurring reporting runs reliably without manual assembly.
Population Health and Public Sector Analytics
Public sector analysis carries obligations that commercial analysis does not, from equity of access to statistical disclosure. This course covers working with population level data responsibly and reporting it in ways that inform policy.
Spreadsheet Controls and Model Risk
Critical decisions rest on spreadsheets that nobody has ever tested. This course covers building models that can be audited, finding the errors already present and applying controls proportionate to what the model decides.
Survey Analysis and Reporting
Surveys are commissioned constantly and analysed badly, with percentages quoted from samples that cannot support them. This course covers analysing survey data honestly and reporting it without overstating what it shows.
Building a Data Team and Capability
Organisations hire analysts and then wonder why nothing changes. This course covers structuring a data function, prioritising demand and building the relationships that make analysis get used.
Financial Forecasting with Analytics
Finance forecasts are often built from last year plus a percentage. This course covers using operational drivers and statistical methods to forecast revenue and cost with stated uncertainty.
Text and Sentiment Analysis for Business
Reviews, complaints, survey comments and support tickets hold detail no rating scale captures. This course covers turning free text into structured insight that operational teams can act on.
Data Quality Measurement and Improvement
Everyone complains about data quality and few organisations measure it. This course covers defining quality dimensions, measuring them at source and fixing the processes that create bad data in the first place.
Dashboard Storytelling for Executives
Executive dashboards accumulate metrics until nobody can tell what needs attention. This course covers building dashboards that answer a question rather than display everything available.
Database Querying for Non Technical Staff
Waiting for someone else to run a query slows every decision. This course teaches non technical staff to answer their own straightforward data questions safely.
Anomaly Detection in Operational Data
Problems announce themselves in data before anyone notices them in the operation. This course covers finding the unusual in operational data without drowning in false alarms.
Streaming Data and Real Time Analytics
Some decisions are worthless a day later, which is when batch reporting delivers them. This course covers processing data as it arrives and deciding when that is genuinely worth the complexity.
Analytics Project Scoping
Analytics work overruns because the question was never pinned down and the data was assumed to exist. This course covers scoping analysis so it can be delivered and used.
Benchmarking and Comparative Analysis
Comparing your numbers to another organisation is easy to do and easy to do badly, because the two rarely count the same things. This course covers benchmarking that survives scrutiny.
Selecting and Rolling Out a Business Intelligence Tool
Organisations buy a reporting tool and then discover that the licences, the data model and the people were the hard parts. This course covers choosing and landing a tool that people actually use.
Pricing Analytics and Price Elasticity
Prices are often set by cost plus a margin and then never tested, leaving money on the table in some lines and customers walking away in others. This course covers analysing what price is actually doing.
Scenario Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis
A single forecast number hides how much is riding on assumptions nobody stress tested. This course covers building models that show what happens when the inputs are wrong.
Capacity and Utilisation Analytics
Organisations add capacity they do not need and run out of the capacity they do, because utilisation is measured as an average across a period that hides the peaks. This course covers measuring it properly.