Claude AI for Business Analytics

Understand how AI is transforming the analyst role — what it automates, what it accelerates, and where human analytical judgment remains essential. Build your first Claude-assisted data brief.

• Understand how AI changes the analytics workflow and the analyst's role
• Use Claude to define an analytical question from a business problem
• Build your first data analysis brief using Claude
• Explore what types of data Claude can and cannot reliably interpret

80% of analytics time is data cleaning. Use Claude to write Excel formulas, Google Sheets scripts, and data transformation instructions that clean any dataset in minutes.

• Use Claude to identify and fix data quality issues in a spreadsheet
• Write Excel VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, and IF formulas using natural language
• Use Claude to automate repetitive Sheets operations with Apps Script
• Clean and standardise a messy real-world dataset with Claude's guidance

SQL is the most in-demand analyst skill — and with Claude, you can write it without memorising syntax.

Use natural language to write SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, and CASE queries that answer real business questions.

• Write basic SQL queries using natural language prompts to Claude
• Use Claude to write JOIN queries across multiple tables
• Build GROUP BY aggregations to answer business questions
• Use Claude to debug SQL errors and explain what went wrong
• Translate a business question directly into a working SQL query

Great dashboards don't show all the data — they show the right data. Use Claude to define KPI frameworks, design dashboard structures, and write the data narrative that makes metrics meaningful.

• Define a KPI framework for any business function using Claude
• Design a dashboard structure that answers a specific business question
• Write dashboard annotations and commentary using Claude
• Identify which metrics belong on an executive dashboard vs an operational one

Produce your first complete analytical report — from data to insight to recommendation. Then showcase your best Week 1 analytical work to your cohort.

• Write a complete analytical report with executive summary using Claude
• Structure insights in problem → analysis → finding → recommendation format
• Produce a 1-page data story that a non-technical reader can act on
• Present your best Week 1 deliverable — Best Report, Best Dashboard, Best SQL

Finance is the language of business. Use Claude to read P&L statements, interpret balance sheets, calculate key financial ratios, and write financial summaries that non-finance stakeholders can act on.

• Use Claude to read and interpret a Profit & Loss statement
• Calculate and interpret key financial ratios (gross margin, EBITDA, ROI)
• Write a financial health summary for a non-finance audience
• Use Claude to model simple financial scenarios and projections

Move beyond basic queries into analytical SQL. Use Claude to write CTEs, window functions, and subqueries that answer complex multi-step analytical questions — still using plain language specifications.

• Use Claude to write Common Table Expressions (CTEs) for multi-step analysis
• Build window function queries for running totals, rankings, and trends
• Use Claude to design a simple data model for a business scenario
• Write data transformation queries that prepare data for dashboards

The most powerful analytical skill is communication. Use Claude to build data narratives, write executive summaries, and prepare board-ready presentations — structured to drive decisions, not just inform.

• Build a data story using the Situation–Complication–Resolution framework
• Write an executive summary from a complex dataset in under 200 words
• Use Claude to anticipate leadership questions and pre-build answers
• Design a 5-slide board presentation using Claude as your content partner

Understand the modern BI stack. Use Claude to navigate Power BI and Tableau concepts, automate report commentary, and integrate AI into your analytical workflow for ongoing competitive advantage.

• Use Claude to understand Power BI and Tableau report structures
• Automate report commentary and insight generation using Claude
• Build a simple BI dashboard with Claude-generated SQL as the data layer
• Design your personal AI-analytics workflow for any future role

Understand analytical responsibility — data bias, misleading visualisations, and how to present uncertainty to leadership. Then present your capstone analytical case study in your Grand Finale.

• Identify common sources of analytical bias and how to mitigate them
• Understand data privacy obligations for analysts
• Know how to communicate uncertainty and confidence intervals to non-technical leaders
• Grand Finale: Present a complete analytical case study with data, insight, and recommendation
• Earn peer-nominated awards and your Certificate of AI Proficiency