DATA

ANALYTICS
IMMERSIVE
 OVERVIEW
General Assembly’s Data Analytics Immersive (DAI) is a
beginning-level course that will prepare you to launch a
successful career in one of today’s fastest-growing job
markets.

Created to transform your career in just 12 weeks, this full-

time on campus bootcamp will equip you with the tools and
techniques needed to go from novice to expert and develop a
data career full of opportunities and growth potential.
Once you complete this bootcamp, you’ll present potential
employers with an impressive resume highlighting your
capabilities with the most in-demand tools they are looking
for. You’ll also have sought-after soft skills that will make you
stand out.

Our industry-aligned curriculum prepares you to:

Manage the entire data analytics workflow.
Acquire, analyze, and visualize data sets in real time.
Master industry-standard tools like SQL, Excel, Tableau, PowerBI, and Python.
Turn data into stories that can influence and inform important decisions.
Ask the right questions and answer them with data-informed insights.
Demonstrate what you’ve learned with a solid professional portfolio.
Data Analytics Immersive: Overview
 WHAT TO EXPECT
Pre-Course Learning Paths
To qualify for the DAI, you will need a high school diploma,
GED or other equivalent, or a diploma from an institution of
higher education recognized by the U.S. Department of
Education as well as a strong mathematical foundation and
basic familiarity with programming concepts.

The In-Class Experience

Engage in full-time, project-based learning that’s designed to
inspire a lifetime of discovery. As a DAI student, you’ll:

Explore new concepts and tools through expert-led

lectures and discussions.
Complete hands-on exercises to reinforce newly learned
skills.
Develop fluency in industry-essential topics and
techniques via independent, pair, and group labs and
real-world client work.
Receive individualized feedback and support from your
expert instructional team.
Build out a professional portfolio to showcase your job-
ready data analytics skills to potential employers and
collaborators.
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 Dedicated Career Coaching
As an Immersive student, you’ll receive dedicated support
from career coaches who will help you set goals, build
connections with employers, and stay on track with your job
search. Throughout the course, you’ll:

Get an inside look at the industry through day-in-the-life

talks, hiring panel discussions, guest speakers, and more.
Cultivate a competitive candidate mindset, learning to
assess your skill set against job descriptions, track
progress, and recognize opportunities.
Develop your professional brand; polish your online and
in-person presence.
Practice technical challenges and whiteboarding skills to
set yourself apart in interviews.
Tap into an exclusive global network of experts,
influencers, and peers, plus learn strategies for
leveraging your existing connections, whether in person
or online.
Become an active contributor to the data science
community.

After graduation, you’ll also gain access to resources to help

fuel a lifetime of learning. Dive into new topics or continue
honing your data science skills with discounts on a suite of
tools, passes and packages to premier events, and more. You
can also apply tuition discounts to future GA courses,
classes, and workshops, both on campus and online.
Data Analytics Immersive: What To Expect

*Data Analytics Immersive is run in a Connected Classroom format at all GA campuses except for London.
 PREREQUISITES
This is an entry-level course meant for true beginners.
Whether you are only starting to realize the potential of
data analytics or you can list off the top tools used in this
field, we don’t expect you to have any foundational
elements prior to this other than a desire to learn and a
clear line of sight to your future goals.

Our Admissions team can discuss your background and

learning goals to advise if this course is a good fit for you.
Data Analytics Immersive: Prerequisites & The Final Project
 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Unit 1 Responsible Become an effective inspector, critically scrutinizing
Data Analytics datasets for veracity and quality before deciding to use
them. You’ll understand how to identify reliable data
sources, data storytelling, algorithmic bias, and data ethics.

Identify the possible limitations and quality issues

associated with unfamiliar datasets including missing
data or unreliable sources.
Understand the bias that is being introduced into
predictive models through training data, choice of model,
or evaluation metric.
Explain the ethical and regulatory issues associated with
data acquisition methods.
Apply a checklist to assess whether the data are likely to
be accurate and reliable.
Qualify issues in a data set and diagnose the type of
missing data.
Apply ethical scraping principles to a given scenario.

Unit 2 Statistics and Jump into the fundamental statistical and

Mathematics for mathematical techniques required for data analytics.
Understand descriptive statistics, dependent and
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independent variables, types of missing data, linear
regression, and model validation.

Identify the difference between key descriptive

statistics, including the median and mean.
Given a scenario, determine whether a simple or
complex model should be used.
Apply the principles of linear regression, including
minimizing the sum of squared residuals, and using
RMSE as a performance metric.
Compute appropriate statistics using a variety of
tools, including SQL, Excel, Tableau, or Python.
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Choose an appropriate model to solve a given

problem; justify the choice of the model used and
identify the independent variables.
 Unit 3 Data Acquisition Develop your SQL skills. You’ll complete this unit with
and Cleaning an understanding of the benefits of using specialized
tools such as SQL for specific stages of the data
With SQL
analytics workflow, over multi-purpose tools such as
Excel.

Know the difference between relational and non-

relational databases, and identify the advantages
and disadvantages of relational and non-relational
databases.
Apply knowledge of Boolean logic when filtering
datasets and SQL syntax,
and debug queries that produce error messages.
Apply algorithmic thinking skills to a series of SQL
queries given an analytical question.
Interpret the results and indicate the limitations of
the data given a query.

Unit 4 Data Analysis and Explore and analyze datasets using Excel. Learn to write
Interpretation formulas to perform more complex analyses, build
visualizations using lookups to efficiently search
With Excel
datasets and pivot tables.

Apply syntax and commonly used commands for

cleaning, transforming,
and analyzing data.
Justify the choice of analysis, given a scenario, and
select the appropriate calculations to perform for a
given task.
Select the most appropriate visualizations to
effectively communicate results.
Given a scenario, identify the correct order of steps of
the analytics workflow
to plan and implement a full data analysis.
Determine whether an unfamiliar dataset requires
extensive cleaning or manipulation.
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 Unit 5 Data Analysis Analyze and visualize data using the dashboarding
With Tableau and and business intelligence tools Tableau and PowerBI.
Effective visualization and communication with
PowerBI
storytelling will be the heart and soul of this unit.

Tackle every stage of the data analytics workflow,

including handling very
large datasets.
Identify and apply data visualization tools that can
interface with a range of data sources.
Determine whether exploratory data analysis is
required as a precursor to predictive modeling
tasks, given a scenario.
Demonstrate the principles of good data dashboard
design.

Unit 6 Data Analysis Now is the point to enhance your growing skills in data
With Python acquisition, analysis, and visualization using Python
programming fundamentals, data acquisition with
APIs, exploratory data analysis, and simple linear
regression.

Identify the algorithmic thinking skills that are

required to break complex questions into smaller
steps.
Indicate how Jupyter Notebook is a useful
development environment for data analytics.
Identify the information that can be gained from
Matplotlib, seaborn, or Plotly.
Determine the significance of certain metrics when
performing exploratory data analyses in Pandas.

Unit 7 Data in the Learn the skills you need to work in an organization, as
Organization part of a team of data professionals and nontechnical
colleagues. The importance of adhering to regulations,
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data privacy, and security, will also be emphasized.

Identify landmark legislation around data

governance and privacy, including GDPR and how it
applies to roles in an organization.
Identify the differences between commonly used
agile working frameworks, including scrum and
kanban.
Give a technical presentation in which information is
presented concisely for a non-technical audience.
Deploy a Python script on a cloud service to
demonstrate that continuous monitoring and
analysis is possible.
 Unit 8 Capstone Projects To round out your education, you will apply rigorous
data analysis techniques to solve a problem in two
projects: a group project and an individual project.
Both will require you to collect, clean, and analyze a
data set and create a compelling presentation to share
your — or your team’s — insights.

Unit 9 Career Planning At the end of the course, you will have personalized
job support to help you transition into a Data Analyst
role. In sessions held throughout the course, you’ll
work with dedicated career coaches to help you
confidently build a personal brand, apply for jobs, prep
for interviews, and tackle technical assessments.
Data Analytics Immersive: What You’ll Learn
 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Why are data analytics skills relevant today?
Data analyst is one of the most in-demand job roles today. In fact, the World Economic
Forum cited it as the second fastest-growing field in the United States. As companies in
virtually every industry — from information technology to higher education — harness the
power of big data to make decisions, demand for data analysts is skyrocketing.

Will I earn a certificate?

Yes! Upon passing this course, you will receive a signed certificate of completion. Thousands
of GA alumni use their course certificate to demonstrate skills to potential employers —
including our 19K+ hiring partners — along with their LinkedIn networks. Our programs are
well-regarded by many top employers, who contribute to our curriculum and partner with us
to train their own teams.

What are the professional backgrounds of data analytics students?

Students come from all walks of life but share one common mission: They are passionate
about launching a career in data analytics. We see career-changers from diverse
professional backgrounds — for this program, you really need no data analytics experience
to get started.

Who is eligible for tuition sponsorship by Tamkeen and GA? And, what
does tuition sponsorship cover?
No coding experience is required to apply.

You must be a Bahraini citizen to receive tuition sponsorship.

Tuition sponsorship covers:

Expert instruction in the skills you need to enter the workforce as a junior full-stack web
developer.
Self-paced pre-work to explore software engineering fundamentals help you hit the
ground running on day one of class.
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Robust coursework, including expert-vetted lesson decks, project toolkits, and more.
A professional-grade portfolio of projects taken from concept to completion — each
mirroring real problems that engineers face — that allows you to showcase the breadth
of your technical skills to employers.
Individual feedback and guidance from instructors and TAs during office hours.
Dedicated career services to help you navigate your personal job search experience,
from technical challenges, to salary negotiation, and more.
Technical interview prep, including resume reviews, mock interviews, and
whiteboarding practice.
A GA course certificate to showcase your new skill set on LinkedIn.
Dedicated career services to help you navigate your personal job search experience,
from technical challenges, to salary negotiation, and more.
 Technical interview prep, including resume reviews, mock interviews, and
whiteboarding practice.
Exclusive access to alumni discounts, networking events, and career workshops.
A GA course certificate to showcase your new skill set on LinkedIn.
Connections with a professional network of instructors and peers that lasts well
beyond the course. The global GA community can help you navigate and succeed in
the field.

What projects will I work on during this course?

For your capstone project, you’ll tackle a real-world data problem from end to end.
Develop a pitch and problem statement, source and collect relevant data, conduct an
exploratory data analysis, and build a predictive model. You’ll document and share your
findings through a presentation, technical report, and non-technical summary.

Throughout this Immersive, you’ll also compile a portfolio of projects designed to

reinforce what you’ve learned in each unit. Gain hands-on experience with statistical
and machine learning models, Python programming tools, recommender systems,
neural networks, and more.

Where are the GA & Tamkeen courses delivered?

The GA and Tamkeen courses are delivered in person at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and
Finance (BIBF).
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Admissions team is here to help and can advise on if this program
is right for you and your learning goals. You can also:
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