The PCED Certified Entry-Level Data Analyst with Python course teaches data collection, cleaning, analysis and visualisation with Python, and prepares you for the certification exam.
Certified Entry-Level Data Analyst with Python Training with the Exam Included
PCED Certified Entry-Level Data Analyst with Python Course
The PCED, Certified Entry-Level Data Analyst with Python course is the entry point to a data career using Python, the language data teams rely on most. Over two days you learn to collect, clean, analyse and present data with a trainer and a live class.
The course covers the data analysis lifecycle, acquiring and pre processing data, core Python for data work, descriptive statistics, and visualisation with libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and Seaborn, alongside data ethics and storytelling, and it prepares you for the PCED-30-02 exam. It suits beginners with little or no prior data or programming experience.
Where PCED leads
PCED builds directly toward the PCAD Certified Associate Data Analyst with Python course, the associate level for professional data analysts. Knowing Python first helps, so the PCEP Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer course is a useful companion. If your goal is a data role, see the Data Analytics Job Ready Program.
Logitrain has trained more than 15,000 professionals since 2004, and the official exam fee is included in the course price.
The PCED credential proves you can turn raw data into insight with Python, the foundation skill behind data analyst and junior data scientist roles. As organisations make more decisions from data, this is a practical, recognised first step into a high demand field.
With Logitrain the official PCED-30-02 exam fee is included, you keep the digital course material, and every course carries our price beat guarantee. Train in person in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, or live online across Australia, with the exam delivered online on demand through the OpenEDG Testing Service.
There are no hard prerequisites. PCED is built for beginners to data and to programming.
A little Python helps you move faster, so the PCEP Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer course or equivalent basic Python is a recommended starting point.
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam.
- PCED-30-02, Certified Entry-Level Data Analyst with Python
You can book and sit the exam within three months of finishing your course. It is delivered online on demand through the OpenEDG Testing Service with live online proctoring, so you can take it from home, the office, or any private space with a webcam, microphone and reliable internet connection.
Exam format: 40 single-select and multiple-select items across four blocks, 60 minutes, with a passing score of 75 percent.
This course includes the full PCED course material in digital format, yours to keep for revision before the exam.
- Explain what data is and how it supports decision making
- Describe the data analysis lifecycle end to end
- Acquire data from files and common sources
- Clean and pre process messy or incomplete data
- Handle missing values, duplicates and data types
- Use core Python and the csv, math, statistics and datetime modules
- Work with arrays using NumPy
- Manipulate tabular data with Pandas DataFrames
- Calculate descriptive statistics and summarise datasets
- Create charts and visualisations with Matplotlib and Seaborn
- Communicate findings with clear summaries and visuals
- Apply basic data quality and ethical handling principles
This course is likely to add to the employment related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.
- Aspiring data analysts and junior data scientists
- Career changers moving into data roles
- Students and graduates entering the data job market
- Business and operations staff who work with spreadsheets and reports
- Analysts in other fields adding Python data skills
- Managers who want to understand data driven decision making
- What data is and why it matters
- The role of data in business and decision making
- Types and sources of data
- The data analysis lifecycle
- Introduction to the data analyst role
- Acquiring data from files
- Reading and writing CSV files
- Handling missing, duplicate and inconsistent values
- Converting and validating data types
- Pre processing and preparing datasets
- Core Python for data tasks
- Using the math and statistics modules
- Working with dates and times
- Using the collections module
- Introduction to NumPy arrays
- Creating, indexing and slicing arrays
- Array operations and aggregation
- Introduction to Pandas
- Series and DataFrame structures
- Selecting, filtering and sorting data
- Grouping and summarising data
- Descriptive statistics: mean, median, mode and spread
- Identifying patterns and outliers
- Introduction to data visualisation
- Plotting with Matplotlib
- Statistical charts with Seaborn
- Choosing the right chart for the message
- Summarising results in text and visuals
- Data storytelling basics
- Data ethics and responsible handling
- Assessing and improving data quality
- PCAD Certified Associate Data Analyst with Python course: the associate next step, adding SQL, modelling and machine learning basics.
- PCEP Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer course: build the Python foundations that support data work.
- PCEI Certified Entry-Level AI Specialist with Python course: take your data skills toward artificial intelligence.
- Tableau training: pair Python analysis with leading data visualisation.
- Data Analytics Job Ready Program: training, projects and work experience for a data career.
- Programming and coding courses: the full Logitrain programming category.
Got a team to train? Logitrain can deliver the PCED Certified Entry-Level Data Analyst with Python course in house at your premises anywhere in Australia, with the same trainer, course material, mock test and included official exam as the public courses. It suits teams who want everyone trained together on dates that suit the business.
What is the PCED certification?
PCED, Certified Entry-Level Data Analyst with Python, is an entry level credential from the OpenEDG Python Institute that proves you can collect, clean, analyse and present data using Python.
Is the exam included in the course fee?
Yes. The official PCED-30-02 exam fee is included, and you can sit the exam within three months of finishing the course.
Do I need experience before this course?
No. PCED is built for beginners, though some basic Python helps you progress more quickly.
Which exam version does this course cover?
The course prepares you for the current PCED-30-02 exam.
How long is the PCED course?
Two days full time, or two weeks part time across evenings or weekends.
Where can I train?
In person in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra, or live online in real time anywhere in Australia.
Should I do PCED or PCAD first?
Start with PCED for the foundations, then move to the PCAD Certified Associate Data Analyst with Python course for professional level data analysis.
What is included with the Certified Entry-Level Data Analyst with Python Course?
Includes Official Exam Fee
Take the certification exam within 3 months of course / module completion
Authorised Test Centre
Take the official certification exam at Logitrain, a local VUE test centre or online
Includes Course Material
Course material in digital format is included for flexibility and ease of use
Includes Practise Questions
Practise questions are provided for better understanding of the key concepts
Instructor-led Training
Attend the course with an instructor at our training centre or from anywhere
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