Curricula

Objective

Purpose of the course

Data processing is one of the fundamental pillars in the IT industry. Data-driven decision-making is a factor that many companies leverage to improve their business. In the Data Processing and Reporting on Cloud Platforms course, you will explore and learn how to manage, analyze, manipulate, and visualize data using cloud services. The course covers how cloud platforms can assist in managing and leveraging data for various business needs.

Course competences

- Information System: Is familiar with typical information systems and services and understands the importance of security in utilizing services.
- Application development: Knows the technologies used in application development and recognizes the significance of different technologies and their relationships.
- Operating in a workplace: Utilises the opportunities offered by technology and digitalisation in their work.
- ICT Specialization: Is able to apply their knowledge and skills in a specific area of ICT, as well as analyze, evaluate, and develop operations in this area.

The learning objectives of the course

In the course, you will learn how data needs to be edited and processed to suitable formats, so that it can be used in business in useful ways. As you complete this course, you will have learned the possibilities of data processing (Extract, Transform, Load) and familiarised yourself with the tools to edit data into various formats needed by different systems or services. You will also learn to visualize the data for analytical purposes.

Content

The course covers, for example, the following topics: Data-Driven Organizations, Elements of Data, Design Principles and Patterns for Data Pipelines, Securing and Scaling the Data Pipeline, Ingesting and Preparing Data, Ingesting by Batch or by Stream, Storing and Organizing Data, Processing Big Data, Processing Data for ML, Analyzing and Visualizing Data and Automating the Data Pipeline.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

-You are able to install and configure a suitable cloud-based data processing environment.
-You can use the tools covered in the course.
-You are familiar with methods and tools related to data processing and can implement a data processing (ETL) process in the cloud.
-You have successfully completed the required tasks and exam for the course.