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Data Foundations

Before the tools — what data actually is, how it lies to you, and how to ask a question it can answer.

Most data courses start with a tool. You learn the buttons, produce a chart, and still cannot say whether the chart is telling the truth. This one starts earlier, because the expensive mistakes in data work are almost ne…

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Venkat Kurela
KCA Certified Trainer
🌐 English⏱ 12h 32m content📚 22 lessons🏆 Certificate♾ Lifetime📱 All devicesBeginner
Data Foundations
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This course includes
12h 32m of written lessons
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22 lessons across sections
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NASSCOM-aligned certificate
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Quizzes & assessments
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What you'll learn

Say what one row of a dataset represents, and why that decides the whole analysis
Tell categorical, ordinal, numeric and date data apart, and know what each allows
Open a CSV without corrupting it, and explain what a spreadsheet is doing underneath
Find missing, duplicated and impossible values before they reach a chart
Recognise the date, unit and encoding traps that silently change your numbers
Turn a vague business question into one a dataset can answer
Explain what an average hides, and choose a better summary when it does
Compare groups fairly using rates rather than raw counts
Build a pivot table and say what it computed, rather than clicking until it looks right
Make a chart that does not mislead, and spot one that does
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Course Curriculum

5 sections · 22 lessons · 12h 33m total

1. What Data Actually Is
5 lessons
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Data Is a Decision Somebody Already Made23m
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What Does One Row Represent?21m
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Tables, Columns, Rows and the Unique Identifier27m
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The Dataset This Course Uses26m
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Types of Data, and Why the Type Decides the Analysis34m
2. Getting Data In Front of You
3 lessons
3. Data That Lies to You
6 lessons
4. Asking a Question Properly
4 lessons
5. Your First Real Analysis
4 lessons
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Quizzes & Exams
5 checkpoint quizzes as you go, plus a final exam of 25 questions. 50 questions in total, included with the course.
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Requirements

No experience with data, statistics or programming — this is the starting point
Excel or Google Sheets. Sheets is free, and every formula in the course works in both
No prior course required. This is step 1 of the Data track
This is a WRITTEN course: lessons are text, formulas and data you work with, not video
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Venkat Kurela
Course Instructor · KCA Expert Trainer
📚 NASSCOM Certified
Course Details
🏷 CategoryDATA_SCIENCE_ANALYTICS
📊 LevelBeginner
🌐 LanguageEnglish
⚡ AccessOne-time purchase
📅 UpdatedAugust 2026
⏱ Duration12h 32m total
📜 Certificate✓ Included
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Data AnalysisSpreadsheetsData QualityAnalyticsBeginnerWritten Course
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