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About Study Course

ECTS:3
Course supervisor:Dina Barute
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Biology; Business Management; Civil and Military Defense; Clinical Pharmacy; Communication Science; Dentistry; Digital Health; Health Management; Information and Communication Science; Juridical Science; Law; Life Science; Management Science
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Other engineering and technologies

Objective

The course aims to develop basic student skills in data preparation, descriptive analysis, and visualization to create correct summaries, clear visualizations, and simple interactive reporting (Dashboard) from the output data in Excel and BI tools (Power BI/tableau). During the course, students develop the skills to ensure data quality, correctness of calculations, reproducibility and responsible use of data and AI tools, including validation of results.

Prerequisites

High school math course. Basic skills for working in MS Excel are desirable.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Describes the importance of data, data breakdowns, types of data sources and data quality criteria

Skills

1.Imports data in Excel, structures it in a table, performs data cleaning and transformations, and creates summaries using PivotTables and PivotCharts

Competence

1.Organise work independently from formulating a goal to presenting results by choosing appropriate tools and techniques

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2027, Spring semester
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