AI in the Flow of Data Analysis: Turn Data into Decisions in 7 Days
29mIntermediate2026-06-23
Authors

Mo Chen
Course details
Go from ambiguous business questions to clear, decision‑ready recommendations by learning how to leverage both analytical thinking and AI. In this course, follow a multi‑day process that mirrors how modern analysts actually work: starting with framing the problem, forming hypotheses, and preparing data, then moving through data profiling, cleaning, and exploratory analysis. From there, learn how to validate your findings, transform observations into insights, and communicate your results in a concise, executive‑ready format. See how to use AI as a powerful partner generating ideas, accelerating analysis, and reviewing your work—while still applying your own judgment to ensure accuracy and relevance. Rather than focusing only on tools, this course emphasizes the thinking skills that set strong analysts apart: asking better questions, challenging assumptions, and connecting results to real business decisions. By the end of the course, you’ll have a repeatable framework you can apply to almost any analytical problem helping you produce insights that are not only correct, but useful, credible, and actionable.
Learning objectives
Frame ambiguous business problems and translate them into clear, testable analytical questions.
Develop and evaluate hypotheses to guide data analysis.
Profile, clean, and validate datasets to ensure reliable analysis.
Conduct structured exploratory data analysis to identify patterns and drivers.
Review and validate findings to ensure they answer the original business questions.
Transform analytical findings into decision‑ready insights using the “So what?” framework.
Communicate results through a concise, executive‑level brief.
Use AI tools effectively across the workflow while applying critical thinking and judgment.
Learning objectives
Frame ambiguous business problems and translate them into clear, testable analytical questions.
Develop and evaluate hypotheses to guide data analysis.
Profile, clean, and validate datasets to ensure reliable analysis.
Conduct structured exploratory data analysis to identify patterns and drivers.
Review and validate findings to ensure they answer the original business questions.
Transform analytical findings into decision‑ready insights using the “So what?” framework.
Communicate results through a concise, executive‑level brief.
Use AI tools effectively across the workflow while applying critical thinking and judgment.
Concepts
Using AI for Data Analysis
- Course introduction (course overview + what you should know)
- Day 1 - How to turn a business brief into analytical questions
- Day 2 - How to get AI to understand your dataset and generate hypotheses
- Day 3 - How to clean data for reliable analysis with AI
- Day 4 - How to run exploratory data analysis with AI
- Day 5 - Validating your analysis against the original business question
- Day 6 - How to ask so what Turning data findings into decisions
- Day 7 - How to write a one-page analyst brief that gets read
- What you've accomplished and what next
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