We will be using Google Spreadsheets and Chart Studio by Plotly for our data handling and visualization throughout the course. There are many tools for this type of work. You may have heard of PowerBI, Tableau, Python, R, SQL, to name a few that touch the space of data handling. PowerBI and Tableau are described as Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools for Business Analytics and Intelligence (BI) and Data Science (DS). Python, R, and SQL are programming languages that are heavily used in data science.
Microsoft’s Excel program has broad industry penetration and is used by virtually every company on the planet. Google’s spreadsheet tool is a strong competitor and has equally strong user penetration in industry.
We will be using Google Sheets in this course. You will need a Google account to take full advantage of Google Sheets. We have G-Suite with our byui.edu. Google has provided some nice documents to help us navigate Google Sheets - sheets.html.
We will be using Tableau in this course. You will need to register for a student account. Tableauis widely used in industry.