Recommended Resources

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Here’s where I place all of the recommended resources that I love after trying (or wish to have!).

I’ve spent hours on testing or researching for the best resources out there and these are what I would suggest getting (based on my opinion) to have the best value for money.

Please bear in mind that these are by no means the highest-end of products. These are just some resources that I would use myself for their high value with reasonable pricing.

Here’s my list of recommended online courses:

My Highly Recommended Online Courses!

	Topic	Online Courses	What’s Good About This Course?
1	Data Analytics	Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate	Good overview of many data analyst tools, good career credentials
2	Data Science	IBM Data Science Professional Certificate	Good overview of many data scientist tools, good career credentials
3	Excel	Excel Skills for Business Specialization	Focused on the applications of excel in business
4	Python	Learning Python for Data Analysis and Visualization	Strong focus on using Python for data analytics
5	SQL	Introduction to SQL	Beginner-friendly
6	Tableau	Data Visualization with Tableau	Covers from beginner to intermediate Tableau
7	Power BI	Getting Started with Power BI Desktop	Good guided project to get you started
8	R Programming	Data Science: Foundations using R Specialization	A full specialization covering all aspects of R for data science

Books are one of the ways I complement my learning from online courses.

Check out my favorite books below:

My Highly Recommended Books!

	Topic	Books	What’s Good About this Book?
1	Data Analytics	–	–
2	Data Science	–	–
3	Excel	–	–
4	Python	Python for Data Analysis	A good reference guide to use alongside coding for the first time
5	SQL	SQL: The Ultimate Beginners Guide: Learn SQL Today	A great reference guide for beginners in SQL
6	Tableau	Practical Tableau	A comprehensive guide that has lots of hidden tips and tricks
7	Power BI	Beginning Microsoft Power BI	Beginners’ guide for troubleshooting dashboards while doing a project
8	R Programming	Learning R	A step-by-step guide to getting started with R programming
9	Data Visualization	Big Book of Dashboards	A good reference guide to good vs bad data visualizations has many dashboard examples based on scenarios

Before I share my resources, let me show you my recommended priorities for learning data tools!

Hopefully, this gives you a better idea of which skills you should pick up first!

1. Recommended Data Analyst Learning Priority

Excel
SQL
Python
Tableau
Power BI

2. Recommended Data Scientist Learning Priority

Python
SQL
Excel
Git
R

Now let me share some of the common learning platforms I frequent that should benefit you well too!

Here are some of my favorite sites for online courses:

My Highly Recommended Learning Platforms!

	Learning Platform	What’s Good About the Platform?	Free Trial
1	Coursera	Certificates are offered by popular learning institutes and companies like Google, IBM & Meta/Facebook	Available
2	Datacamp	Comes with an integrated coding platform, great for beginners!	Available
3	Pluralsight	Strong focus on data skills, taught by industry experts	Available
4	Stratascratch	Learn faster by doing real interview coding practices for data science	Available