Data Analysis Training in Braga

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data scientists and engineers who wish to use Google Colab and Apache Spark for big data processing and analytics.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up a big data environment using Google Colab and Spark.
• Process and analyze large datasets efficiently with Apache Spark.
• Visualize big data in a collaborative environment.
• Integrate Apache Spark with cloud-based tools.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data professionals who wish to apply time series forecasting techniques to real-world data using Google Colab.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of time series analysis.
• Use Google Colab to work with time series data.
• Apply ARIMA models to forecast data trends.
• Utilize Facebook’s Prophet library for flexible forecasting.
• Visualize time series data and forecasting results.

Making Data-Informed Decisions is the practice of integrating relevant data, evidence, and analysis into the decision-making process to improve public sector outcomes and accountability.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at public sector professionals with limited or emerging experience in using data for decision-making who design, evaluate, or manage government programs and wish to enhance their ability to interpret, validate, and apply data to real-world decisions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand what it means to be data-informed (versus data-driven or intuition-based).
• Identify and assess data relevant to a policy or service context.
• Ask better questions of data analysts and interpret dashboards and reports effectively.
• Apply data to justify, refine, or defend decisions in public service contexts.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Hands-on use of decision scenarios, data sets, and mock policy briefs.
• Guided exercises focused on practical decision-making use cases.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course based on your department's workflows or internal tools, please contact us to arrange.

Digital Intelligence is the ability to understand and leverage digital tools, data, and systems to make informed decisions in the context of public service delivery and governance.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at public sector professionals with limited or emerging experience in digital intelligence who work with data, digital tools, or service performance metrics and wish to strengthen their ability to analyze, interpret, and apply information for better decision-making.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the foundations of digital intelligence and how it applies to public sector work.
• Use digital tools to collect, visualize, and communicate actionable insights.
• Assess the digital maturity of their own team or department.
• Build a roadmap for enhancing digital capacity and data-driven practices.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Hands-on use of digital tools and dashboard mockups.
• Guided exercises focused on real-world public service use cases.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course based on your department's workflows or internal tools, please contact us to arrange.

Storytelling with Data is the practice of using visual and narrative techniques to transform complex datasets into clear, compelling stories that inform and inspire action.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at public sector professionals who work with data and have limited or informal training in data storytelling, and who wish to enhance their ability to present data clearly and persuasively through narrative and visuals.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Transform raw data into impactful visual stories.
• Use chart selection and layout to support key messages.
• Structure data narratives that align with audience needs.
• Apply best practices for visual clarity and cognitive impact.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Hands-on use of storytelling techniques in data presentations.
• Guided exercises focused on clarity, visual flow, and audience impact.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course based on your department's workflows or internal tools, please contact us to arrange.

Participants who complete this instructor-led, live training in Braga will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Big Data and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.

Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.

The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Big Data, then progresses into the programming languages and methodologies used to perform Data Analysis. Finally, we discuss the tools and infrastructure that enable Big Data storage, Distributed Processing, and Scalability.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level data engineers, analysts, and scientists who wish to understand how to use dbt Cloud to manage their data warehousing and transformation projects in the cloud.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create and manage projects on dbt Cloud.
• Use the dbt Cloud interface to schedule and run data transformations.
• Collaborate on projects with team members.
• Deploy their dbt projects to production.
• Debug and troubleshoot dbt projects.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at data engineers and analysts who wish to learn beginner to intermediate-level knowledge of using AWS Glue to set up a data pipeline.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of AWS Glue.
• Set up an AWS Glue pipeline.
• Set up AWS Glue crawlers and jobs.
• Learn how to use AWS Glue transformations.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level data analysts and business professionals who wish to perform complex data analysis tasks more intuitively across various industries using Google Gemini AI.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of Google Gemini AI.
• Connect various data sources to Gemini AI.
• Explore data using natural language queries.
• Analyze data patterns and derive insights.
• Create compelling data visualizations.
• Communicate data-driven insights effectively.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts and anyone who is interested to learn how to use and integrate Tableau, Python, R, and SQL for data visualization and analysis.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Perform data analysis using Python, R, and SQL.
• Create insights through data visualization with Tableau.
• Make data-driven decisions for business operations.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at analysts who wish to use TM1 to analyze and customize reports and templates for data in a database.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn how to analyze data using IBM Planning Analytics.
• Create custom views of the data in a database.
• Build reports and forms that communicate with TM1.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data engineers who wish to become proficient in utilizing Azure Synapse Analytics for a wide range of data processing, analytics, and visualization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core concepts, architecture, and components of Azure Synapse Analytics.
• Create, configure, and manage scalable data warehouses using Azure Synapse.
• Master the techniques for ingesting, transforming, and loading data (ETL) from various sources into Azure Synapse.
• Optimize query performance, secure data, and integrate Azure Synapse with Power BI and other tools to visualize data and share insights.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level database administrators, SQL developers, and data analysts who wish to enhance their SQL skills by mastering the use of Analytic Functions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the concept and importance of Analytic Functions.
• Apply various Analytic Functions to solve complex analytical problems.
• Combine Analytic Functions with other SQL features for comprehensive data analysis.
• Optimize queries for better performance using Analytic Functions.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts and data scientists who wish to use the MongoDB Aggregation Framework to perform data analysis while simplifying complex operations and aggregation pipelines.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure MongoDB for data analysis.
• Understand the concepts and stages of the MongoDB Aggregation Framework.
• Learn about the basic structure, syntax, and operations for aggregation.
• Learn how to handle advanced operations in aggregation.
• Apply some optimization tools and techniques to improve aggregation performance.

The aim of the course in Braga is to help delegates to give evidence-based answers to questions: 

What has happened?

• processing and analyzing data
• producing informative data visualizations

What will happen?

• forecasting future performance
• evaluating forecasts

What should happen?

• turning data into evidence-based business decisions
• optimizing processes

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level big data professionals who wish to utilize Apache Kylin for building real-time data warehouses and performing multidimensional analysis on large-scale datasets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up and configure Apache Kylin with real-time streaming data sources.
• Design and build OLAP cubes for both batch and streaming data.
• Perform complex queries with sub-second latency using Kylin's SQL interface.
• Integrate Kylin with BI tools for interactive data visualization.
• Optimize performance and manage resources effectively in Kylin.

Participants who complete this instructor-led, live training in Braga will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Big Data and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.

Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.

The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Big Data, then progresses into the programming languages and methodologies used to perform Data Analysis. Finally, we discuss the tools and infrastructure that enable Big Data storage, Distributed Processing, and Scalability.

R is a very popular, open source environment for statistical computing, data analytics and graphics. This course introduces R programming language to students.  It covers language fundamentals, libraries and advanced concepts.  Advanced data analytics and graphing with real world data.

Audience

Developers / data analytics

Duration

3 days

Format

Lectures and Hands-on

This course covers how to use Hive SQL language (AKA: Hive HQL, SQL on Hive, HiveQL) for people who extract data from Hive

Audience

Analysts, researchers, scientists, graduates and students and anyone who is interested in learning how to facilitate statistical analysis in Microsoft Excel.

Course Objectives

This course will help improve your familiarity with Excel and statistics and as a result increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your work or research.

This course describes how to use the Analysis ToolPack in Microsoft Excel, statistical functions and how to perform basic statistical procedures. It will explain what Excel limitation are and how to overcome them.

Participants who complete this training will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Data Science and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.

Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.

The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Data Science, then progresses into the tools and methodologies used in Data Science.

Audience

• Developers
• Technical analysts
• IT consultants

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Data analytics is a crucial tool in business today. We will focus throughout on developing skills for practical hands on data analysis. The aim is to help delegates to give evidence-based answers to questions: 

What has happened?

• processing and analyzing data
• producing informative data visualizations

What will happen?

• forecasting future performance
• evaluating forecasts

What should happen?

• turning data into evidence-based business decisions
• optimizing processes

The course itself can be delivered either as a 6 day classroom course or remotely over a period of weeks if preferred. We can work with you to deliver the course to best suit your needs.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level Python developers and data analysts who wish to enhance their skills in data analysis and manipulation using Pandas and NumPy.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up a development environment that includes Python, Pandas, and NumPy.
• Create a data analysis application using Pandas and NumPy.
• Perform advanced data wrangling, sorting, and filtering operations.
• Conduct aggregate operations and analyze time series data.
• Visualize data using Matplotlib and other visualization libraries.
• Debug and optimize their data analysis code.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at HR professionals and recruitment specialists who wish to use analytical methods improve organisational performance. This course covers qualitative as well as quantitative, empirical and statistical approaches.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at HR professionals who wish to use analytical methods improve organisational performance. This course covers qualitative as well as quantitative, empirical and statistical approaches.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Dremio is an open-source "self-service data platform" that accelerates the querying of different types of data sources. Dremio integrates with relational databases, Apache Hadoop, MongoDB, Amazon S3, ElasticSearch, and other data sources. It supports SQL and provides a web UI for building queries.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to install, configure and use Dremio as a unifying layer for data analysis tools and the underlying data repositories.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Dremio
• Execute queries against multiple data sources, regardless of location, size, or structure
• Integrate Dremio with BI and data sources such as Tableau and Elasticsearch

Audience

• Data scientists
• Business analysts
• Data engineers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists who wish to use IBM Cloud Pak to prepare data for use in AI solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Cloud Pak for Data.
• Unify the collection, organization and analysis of data.
• Integrate Cloud Pak for Data with a variety of services to solve common business problems.
• Implement workflows for collaborating with team members on the development of an AI solution.

In this instructor-led, live training in Braga (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to combine the capabilities of Python and Excel.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure packages for integrating Python and Excel.
• Read, write, and manipulate Excel files using Python.
• Call Python functions from Excel.

In this instructor-led, live training in Braga, participants will learn how to create a time series data application using kdb+ and q.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the difference between a row-oriented database and a column-oriented database.
• Select data, write scripts and create functions to carry out advanced analytics.
• Analyze time series data such as stock and commodity exchange data.
• Use kdb+'s in-memory capabilities to store, analyze, process and retrieve large data sets at high speed.
• Think of functions and data at a higher level than the standard function(arguments) approach common in non-vector languages.
• Explore other time-sensitive applications for kdb+, including energy trading, telecommunications, sensor data, log data, and machine and network usage monitoring.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at technical persons who wish to gain a practical understanding of available cloud solutions, the data analysis processes needed to work with data in the cloud, and the hands-on practice to apply tools such as Power BI to analyze data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Power BI.
• Evaluate the various data solutions offered by cloud providers such as Azure.
• Gain an understanding of the different structures, modeling approaches, and data warehouse designs used to store, manage and access Big Data.
• Apply tools and techniques to clean data in preparation for analysis.
• Build reporting and analytics solutions based on on-premise as well as cloud data.
• Integrate data analytics solutions with a data warehouse.
• Mitigate data security risks and ensure data privacy.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at developers and administrators who wish to use OpenSearch to perform distributed search and data analytics in a unified and secure system.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start building search and analytics solutions with OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards.
• Understand the three approaches (snapshot, restart, and rolling) in upgrading from Elasticsearch OSS to OpenSearch.
• Learn how to index data, create data streams, run queries, and streamline cross-cluster operations in OpenSearch.
• Explore and use plugins, APIs, clients, and ingestion tools (Beats, Logstash, Grafana, etc.) to optimize search experience while keeping clusters secure.
• Use OpenSearch Dashboards to centralize data management, visualization, logging, monitoring, and maintenance.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at persons who wish to learn just enough Python to begin crunching numbers from sales data, traffic analytics, customer interactions, etc..

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure the necessary software, libraries and development environment to begin writing Python code for data analysis.
• Analyze data from sources such as Excel, CSV, JSON files and databases.
• Clean data to improve its usefulness before analyzing it.
• Perform simple statistical analysis.
• Generate reports that present the desired data in just the right format, from straight numbers to data visualizations.
• Gain valuable insight from data, including trends in performance, problematic areas.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists and software engineers who wish to use Dask with the Python ecosystem to build, scale, and analyze large datasets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the environment to start building big data processing with Dask and Python.
• Explore the features, libraries, tools, and APIs available in Dask.
• Understand how Dask accelerates parallel computing in Python.
• Learn how to scale the Python ecosystem (Numpy, SciPy, and Pandas) using Dask.
• Optimize the Dask environment to maintain high performance in handling large datasets.

The aim of this course is to provide a clear understanding of the use of SQL for different
databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access...). Understanding of analytic functions and the
way how to join different tables in a database will help delegates to move data analysis
operations to the database side, instead of doing this in MS Excel application. This can also
help in creating any IT system, which uses any relational database.

This instructor-led, live training in Braga (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to use LibreOffice Calc to conduct many forms of data analysis (from basic to advanced), leveraging similar functionalities found in Excel and other spreadsheet software.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install the LibreOffice suite on any operating system.
• Understand the full features and functionalities available in LibreOffice Calc.
• Learn how to clean, validate, manipulate, and visualize data in Calc.
• Apply the various functions and tools in Calc to perform complex data analysis.
• Gain some tips and insights on conducting advanced data analysis.