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Data Analysis is a dynamic field, leading today’s workforce towards data science, understanding large amounts of information and insights.

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Overview of Learning Data Analysis with upGrad

It is perhaps no wonder that, in a time when approximately 402.74 million terabytes of data are created every day, data has been described as the new ‘oil’ and people who can work with it are becoming increasingly sought after. 

The ability to analyze data has become an essential need, powering business growth and facilitating more informed decision-making. Enrolling in a data analysis course will help you in grabbing one of the most in-demand and lucrative types of jobs in the digital economy.

Why You Should Learn Data Analysis Today

  1. High Demand in the Industry: India’s Big Data industry is expected to grow at 7.66% CAGR and reach $3.38 billion by 2029.
  1. Data Explosion: Over 402.74 TB of data is generated daily, making data analysis essential across all sectors.
  1. Global Demand: 181 zettabytes of data will be generated across the world by the year 2025, so analysts will be needed globally.
  1. Strategic Decisions: Data analysts help businesses understand data and make accurate decisions for long-term success.

upGrad has some of the best data analysis courses, such as free data analysis courses, beginner data analysis courses, as well as advanced courses with master certifications like Generative AI Mastery Certificate for Data Analysis. Hence, you can select any of the flexible online courses in data analysis that work with your career objectives.

Who Should Take Data Analysis Courses

  • Tech careers for new starters: If you are new to the field, beginner data analysis courses can provide a starting point.
  • Students and Recent Graduates: Obtain the Real-Life Skills for Employment in Entry-Level Data Analysis Courses.
  • Working Professionals: If you are in marketing, finance, HR, or operations, a course in data analysis will help you to make better data-driven decisions.
  • Career Changers: Make a move into one of the biggest growth fields of today with courses in Data Analysis.
  • Business owners and entrepreneurs:  Use insights from data analysis courses to learn how to build strategy, sales, and the customer experience.
  • For anyone interested in free options for learning: Dip your toes into upGrad’s free data analysis courses before deciding on a whole program.

What Will You Learn in upGrad’s Data Analysis Courses?

upGrad collaborates with the top Indian and international universities to provide some of the best data analysis courses. You can find programs that suit your objectives, whether you are new to this domain or have been practicing data analysis for years.

Some of these flagship data analysis courses are:

Top Skills and Syllabus You Learn

Almost all data analysis courses at upGrad include the following essential skills:

  • Data Cleaning & Preprocessing: Handle missing data, duplicates, and prepare data for analysis.
  • Data Visualization Tools: Learn about data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and Python libraries to create effective data visualizations.
  • Statistical Analysis: Know and understand descriptive and inferential statistics as a basis for data-informed decision-making.
  • Python & SQL Programming:  Practical online courses in Python programming and SQL querying are taught in the context of data analysis.
  • Excel for Data Analysis: Master complex Excel formulas that enable quick and simple data manipulation.
  • Machine Learning Basics: Learn about ML programs and keep in mind to start with simple models.
  • Business Problem Solving with Data:  Learn to solve actual problems faced by industries such as finance, health care, and e-commerce.

Data Science Course Instructors

Learn From The Best

Learn Data Science fundamentals from expert instructors who help you excel in your careers by imparting cutting-edge analytics and machine learning skills.

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Instructors

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Industry Experts

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Prof. Paulo Lisboa

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Head of Dept - Applied Mathematics

Studied mathematical physics at LU and was the chairman of Industrial Mathematics at KMJU in 1996 and Head of Graduate School in 2002 

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Prof. Dhiya Al-Jumeily

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Professor - Artificial Intelligence

A senior member of the IEEE and a chartered IT Professional, he is a fellow of the UK Higher Education ACademy 

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Tricha Anjali

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Ex-Associate Dean

Prof. Anjali has a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology as well as an integrated MTech (EE) from IIT Bombay. 

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Dr. Gabriela Czanner

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Faculty - Engineering and Technology

A Senior lecturer at Department of Applied Mathematics at LJMU. Her research focus is advanced statistics for decision support 

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Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan

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Professor

Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a PhD in Computer Science from IIT-K and 18 years of experience with Infosys and several other MNCs. 

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Chandrashekar Ramanathan

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Dean Academics

Prof. Chandrashekar has a PhD from Mississippi State University and experience of over 10 years in several multinational organisations. 

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Dr. Atif Waraich

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Faculty - Computer Science

A Senior faculty of Engineering and Technology at LJMU who has multiple publications in the health care domain 

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Debabrata Das

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Director, IIITB

Dr. Debabrata Das is Director of IIITB. He has received his PhD from IIT-KGP. His main areas of research are IoT and Wireless Access Network 

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Data Science Projects

Learn by Doing

Our data science online certification programs have projects to apply theoretical knowledge in practical scenarios, helps you to tackle real-world problems.

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Industry projects to choose from

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In this assignment, you will work for a consumer finance company which specialises in lending various types of loans to urban customers and use EDA to analyse the patterns present in the data. This will ensure that the applicants are capable of repaying the loan are not rejected.

Data Visualisation

Data Analysis

Data Interpretation

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Credit EDA Assignment

In this assignment, you will work for a consumer finance company which specialises in lending various types of loans to urban customers and use EDA to… Know More

Skills learned

Data Cleaning

Data Visualisation

Data Analysis

Data Interpretation

MySQL Queries

Data Manipulation

Data Analysis

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RSVP Case Study

In this assignment, you will work on a movies dataset using SQL to extract exciting insights about popular films and the factors that drive a film. 

Skills learned

MySQL

MySQL Queries

Data Manipulation

Data Analysis

ML Modelling

Model Evaluation

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Bike Sharing Assignment

Build a regression model to understand the factors on which the demand for bike sharing systems vary on and help a company optimise its revenue. 

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Linear Regression

ML Modelling

Model Evaluation

In this case study, the company requires you to build a machine learning classification model wherein using some demographics and behavioral data of the leads (potential buyers), it will be able to identify the ones most likely to convert.

Decision Trees

Classification

ML Modelling

Model Evaluation

Business Problem Solving

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Lead Scoring Case Study

In this case study, the company requires you to build a machine learning classification model wherein using some demographics and behavioral data of t… Know More

Skills learned

Logistic Regression

Decision Trees

Classification

ML Modelling

Model Evaluation

Business Problem Solving

Telecom companies often face the problem of churning customers due to the competitive nature of the industry. Help a telecom company identify customers that are likely to churn and make data-driven strategies to retain them from the perspective of a business analyst.

Tree Models

Model Selection

Feature Engineering

Classification

ML Modelling

Model Evaluation

Business Problem Solving

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Model Selection Case Study - Telecom Churn

Telecom companies often face the problem of churning customers due to the competitive nature of the industry. Help a telecom company identify customer… Know More

Skills learned

Logistic Regression

Tree Models

Model Selection

Feature Engineering

Classification

ML Modelling

Model Evaluation

Business Problem Solving

Telecom companies often face the problem of churning customers due to the competitive nature of the industry. Help a telecom company identify customers that are likely to churn and make data-driven strategies to retain them from the perspective of a data scientist.

Tree Models

Boosting

Model Selection

Regularization

Feature Engineering

Classification

ML Modelling

Model Evaluation

Business Problem Solving

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Advanced ML Case Study - Telecom Churn

Telecom companies often face the problem of churning customers due to the competitive nature of the industry. Help a telecom company identify customer… Know More

Skills learned

Logistic Regression

Tree Models

Boosting

Model Selection

Regularization

Feature Engineering

Classification

ML Modelling

Model Evaluation

Business Problem Solving

Lexical Processing

Regex

POS Tagging

Dependency Parsing

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Syntactic Processing Assignment

Use the techniques such as POS tagging and Dependency parsing to extract information from unstructured text data. 

Skills learned

Natural Language Processing

Lexical Processing

Regex

POS Tagging

Dependency Parsing

Sqoop

Redshift

Spark

ETL Pipeline

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ETL Project

Make use of Sqoop, Redshift & Spark to design an ETL data pipeline. 

Skills learned

AWS

Sqoop

Redshift

Spark

ETL Pipeline

Analyse movie data from the past 100 years and find out various insights to determine what makes a movie do well. Use data manipulation, slicing, and various other dataframe operations to successfully find usable insights from the movies.

Data Processing

Data Visualisation

Data Analysis

Dashboarding

Data Storytelling

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IPL Visualization Assignment

Analyse movie data from the past 100 years and find out various insights to determine what makes a movie do well. Use data manipulation, slicing, and … Know More

Skills learned

Tableau/Power BI

Data Processing

Data Visualisation

Data Analysis

Dashboarding

Data Storytelling

Linear Regression

ML Model Evaluation

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Advanced Regression

Build a regularized regression model to understand the most important variables to predict 

Skills learned

ML Modeling

Linear Regression

ML Model Evaluation

Hadoop

MapReduce Programming

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Linux

Sqoop

Apache HBase

SQL

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MapReduce Programming Assignment

Perform MapReduce Programming in a big data environment on a large dataset. 

Skills learned

AWS

Hadoop

MapReduce Programming

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Linux

Sqoop

Apache HBase

SQL

Big Data with Spark

PySpark

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Big Data Case Study

Understand how a big data project in the industry is taken up and solved through a comprehensive big data case study on cloud. 

Skills learned

AWS

Big Data with Spark

PySpark

Python

Data Analysis

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SQL & Python Lab

Solve intensive programming questions in a competitive lab environment to showcase and evaluate your SQL and Python coding skills. 

Skills learned

SQL

Python

Data Analysis

Understand the factors that drive the Airbnb business and help the team leads tackle problems and bottlenecks through extensive data analysis on UI tools.

Data Storytelling techniques

Data Visualisation

Tableau

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Airbnb Case Study

Understand the factors that drive the Airbnb business and help the team leads tackle problems and bottlenecks through extensive data analysis on UI to… Know More

Skills learned

Data Analysis

Data Storytelling techniques

Data Visualisation

Tableau

Spark

Spark Streaming

Apache Kafka

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Retail Project

Build an end-to-end real-time data processing application using Spark Streaming and Kafka. 

Skills learned

AWS

Spark

Spark Streaming

Apache Kafka

Domain understanding

Data Analysis

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Business Case Study

Understand how data projects are taken up in the industry and implement the steps required to successfully manage and complete a data project. 

Skills learned

Business Problem Solving

Domain understanding

Data Analysis

In this assignment, you will build a complete neural network using Numpy. You will implement all the steps required to build a network - feedforward, loss computation, backpropagation, weight updates etc. You will use the MNIST dataset to train your model to classify handwritten digits between 0-9.

Neural Networks

PyTorch

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NN Assignment

In this assignment, you will build a complete neural network using Numpy. You will implement all the steps required to build a network - feedforward, … Know More

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Deep Learning

Neural Networks

PyTorch

Career Paths After Completing a Data Analysis Course

You can get started in data with some of the best data analysis courses at upGrad. If you are looking for data analytics courses for freshers or experienced professionals, upGrad’s industry-oriented courses will be helpful for you because they include career support, expert guidance, and certifications from premier universities.

upGrad’s Top Data Analysis Courses:

The International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore’s (IIIT Bangalore) online data analysis educational program, offered for 12 months and is specifically made for working professionals interested in acquiring training in the field of data science and artificial intelligence.

This is a 3-month certification-based data analysis course that is best suited for aspirants looking for a consulting-based approach and real-world problems to solve.

This is a bootcamp offered by PwC, an in-demand data analysis course that covers practical skills in Python, SQL, and machine learning.

The programs also feature some of the most in-demand courses on data analysis, combining theory with real-world application.

Top Career Paths After Completing Data Analysis Courses

After taking these data analysis courses, you will be prepared to seek a variety of in-demand positions in many different fields. These are a few popular options, along with average salary expectations in India:

  • Data Analyst: ₹4 to ₹9 LPA
  • Business Analyst: ₹6 to ₹13 LPA
  • Data Scientist: ₹7 to ₹17 LPA
  • Data Engineer: ₹6 to ₹14 LPA
  • Product Analyst: ₹8 to ₹16 LPA
  • Analytics Consultant: ₹11 to ₹18 LPA

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Placements in Data Science Courses

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Success Stories

What Our Learners Have To Say

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upGrad's student mentor played a very importany role in my learning journey

upGrad's student mentors played a crucial part in my learning journey. I followed them and they helped a lot in clarifying my queries related to my online data science course. They also gave me placement assistance as a part of my data science course, where they perfectly guide you on how to start a career as a Data Analyst.

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Abhinay Bandaru

Product Analyst, Head Infotech

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The upGrad's placement drive helped me to secure a job in MNC

My online data science course's content was so well-structured that it helped me grasp concepts that were entirely new to me. Thanks to upGrad's placement drive, I was able to secure a job at Kantar Analytics.

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Bhagvathi

Data Analyst, Kantar

1 Year of Experience

Additional benifits of upGrad helped a lot in terms of gaining practical exposure

upGrad's online data science courses are truly amazing. The mentorship through industry veterans, BaseCamps, and student mentors makes the programme extremely engaging. I Would definitely endorse the data science programme for its rich content and comprehensive approach to Data Science.

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Moulik Srivastava

Technology Project Manager & Commercial Strategy Associate, Victory Farms

5 Years of Experience

Being online, it was like a university experience

Learning with upGrad for my data science course was like going back to University for me. Their data science certification, career support and mentorship calls really helped me switch to a career in the field of Data Science.

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Atul Agarwal

Data Scientist, Scaler

7 Years of Experience

Structured and easy curriculumn

The curriculum of the data science online course is very structured and easy to consume. The mock calls and encouraging words from the CEO before my interview were extremely encouraging. One of the best online data science course there is in the market

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Aishwarya Ramachandran

News Analyst, Thomson Reuters

6 Years of Experience

Data Science Free Courses

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Artificial Intelligence in the Real World

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Artificial Intelligence in the Real World

This free AI course delves into AI's diverse industry applications, providing insights into its pivotal role across various sectors.

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Case Study using Tableau, Python and SQL

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Case Study using Tableau, Python and SQL

This course will help you apply your knowledge in SQL, Python and Tableau to come up with a business solution for the churn problem faced by businesses.

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Introduction to Tableau

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Introduction to Tableau

Learn how you can transform data into actionable insights by conducting data analysis and visualise it using various chart types in Tableau

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Data Science in E-commerce

Learn about price optimisation, market mix modelling, A/B testing and other key skills used to make data-driven decisions in the E-commerce sector

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Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Uncover the basics of NLP and other topics like RegEx for building tools for Spam Detection, Phonetic Hashing and Spell Correction in this introductory course

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Fundamentals of Deep Learning of Neural Networks

Learn about cutting-edge ML models like Artificial Neural Networks or ANNs and various other concepts related to Deep Neural Network in this beginner-friendly course

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Linear Algebra for Analysis

Learn about vectors, linear transformations, matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors in Linear Algebra as you build a solid foundation for analytics with this course

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Advanced SQL: Functions and Formulas

Improve your understanding of SQL as you learn about window functions, partitioning, query optimisation, case statements, stored functions & more in this course

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    Receive one-on-one feedback from our seasoned data science faculty on submissions and personalized feedback to improvement

    Our Data Science Syllabus is designed to provide you with ample of industry relevant knowledge with examples

Why Choose upGrad for Data Analysis Courses?

upGrad’s Online Data Analysis Courses provide you with an immersive experience at your own pace that will prepare you with the necessary skills for analysis without having to interrupt your life. The data analyst course is also taught by experts currently in the field, and you’ll receive prestigious certifications from IIITB, LJMU, OPJ PwC, NSDC, along with a Mentorship Certificate from upGrad, which sharpens your skills but also gets you noticed by major employers.


Features

Business Analytics & Consulting Program (via upGrad)

Other Institutes offering data analysis courses

Curriculum Quality

Learn advanced analytics through structured modules in Excel, Power BI, Tableau, and SQL with real-world and industry-based projects.

Most courses on data analysis offer basic overviews with minimal practical application.

Industry-Ready Knowledge

Strong focus on real-world data analysis cases to ensure job-readiness.

Courses may be theoretical without aligning to current job market trends.

Mentorship

One-on-one mentorship from industry leaders and expert career coaches.

Most data analysis online courses do not include personal guidance.

Certifications

Certification from top institutions, LJMU, IIITB, OPJ, or PwC Academy, NSDC, depending on the program you opt for.

Most courses lack globally recognized or multi-institutional certification.

Learning Flexibility

Over 100 hours of live + recorded content in a flexible self-paced format.

Limited options for flexible or self-paced learning in many free courses.

Freelancer Training

Support to transition into freelance analytics roles.

Most data analysis courses for beginners do not address freelancing.

Global Networking

Lifetime access to a global learner and mentor community.

Most platforms don’t provide long-term networking opportunities.

Learning Method

S.M.A.R.T. learning framework with continuous tasks, evaluations, and interactive sessions.

No structured method to ensure consistent progress in many data analysis free courses.

EMI Support

Affordable learning with EMI plans available.

Payment flexibility is not available in most best data analysis courses outside upGrad.

FAQs about Data Analysis

1. What is a data analysis course?

A data analysis course teaches you how to collect, clean, visualize, and interpret data so you can make smart, fact‑based decisions in any business setting.


2. Are there free data analysis courses I can try first?

Many platforms offer free data analysis courses to help you get started. One of the best options is upGrad’s free Data Analysis course using Excel, ideal for beginners looking to build analytical skills. You’ll learn to clean, analyze, and visualize data using pivot tables, formulas, and more.

3. Which are the best data analysis courses for beginners?

For those who are new to data analysis, there are free and paid good courses and certifications that teach the important tools and concepts. Some popular choices are the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate, IBM’s Excel Basics for Data Analysis course, and Dataquest’s Data Analyst in R program.

4. What kind of projects will be covered in this course?

You'll engage in real-world projects such as a Data Storytelling project and an SQL-based movie recommendation project. These hands-on experiences help you apply your learning effectively.


5. Is the Data Analysis Bootcamp worth it?

Yes, a data analysis bootcamp can be worth it, especially if you're looking for a fast-track, immersive way to break into the field. These bootcamps focus on practical, job-ready skills like data visualization, Excel, SQL, and machine learning basics, often packed into just a few months. With hands-on projects, mentorship, and career support, a data analysis course like this is ideal for career switchers or professionals looking to upskill quickly without committing to a long-term degree.


6. What topics do the best data analysis courses cover?

Top data analysis courses include data cleaning, statistical analysis, visualization tools (like Tableau or Power BI), SQL fundamentals, and an intro to Python or R for analytics.


7. What career paths open up after a data analysis course?

Completing a data analysis course can lead to roles like Data Analyst, Business Intelligence Analyst, or even Data Scientist positions that are in high demand across industries.


8. How much can I earn after finishing a data analysis course?

Entry‑level data analysts in India start around ₹4 - 8 LPA, and with experience, or after more advanced data analysis courses, you can see salaries of ₹6 - 19 LPA or higher.

9. How do I pick the right data analysis course for my goals?

Determine if you want a free course as a “test the waters” approach, or a paid data analysis course with university partnerships to provide career support, and align that with how much time and budget you have before selecting any course.


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  1. The above statistics depend on various factors and individual results may vary. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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