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Becoming a data analyst: where to start from scratch

One hour to see clearly: what a data analyst actually does, which tools to learn first, and in what order. With examples from our own assignments in Burkina Faso and across the region.

Session

Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 03:00 PM (GMT)

100 seats left

When: Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 03:00 PM (GMT)
Duration: 1 h 30
Where: Online (Zoom)
Attendance: Free

What is it about?

"Data analyst" has become a title everyone uses and few people define. The consequence is visible every day: people sign up for a Python course because they read somewhere that it was essential, spend three months on it, and still cannot answer the first question an employer asks — "what do these numbers tell us?"

This session puts things back in order. We start from what an analyst actually produces in a company, an NGO or a public administration, and work back to the skills that make it possible. You will see which ones take weeks, which take months, and which are useless until the first ones are in place.

Everything is drawn from our own assignments: field surveys, project monitoring, management dashboards. Nothing theoretical.

The session is free and open to everyone. It assumes no prior knowledge, in statistics or in computing.

What we will cover

What an analyst actually delivers: three outputs, three settings
Skills in order of real usefulness, and the myth that you must learn to code first
Excel, SQL, Power BI, Python, R: which to learn first, and why
Reading a results table without being misled: three common traps
Building your first project, the one you show at an interview
Your questions

Who it is for

Students and recent graduates from any field: economics, statistics, sociology, agronomy, management, public health
NGO and project staff already handling data without having been trained for it
Career changers, and anyone curious about the profession
No prerequisites: no statistics, no programming

Who is leading it

Équipe Waaldé Impact
Data, statistics and artificial intelligence practice

Before you register

The session is delivered in French.
Everything happens online. Your joining link is given to you the moment you register: keep it, it is what opens the session.
A personal certificate of attendance is issued after the session for 2,000 FCFA. It is optional.

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And after the session?

If this topic speaks to you, it is covered in depth in our programmes: several weeks, real projects and a certificate your employer can verify.

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