Build Stronger Data Capability Across Your Team

Practical, instructor-led data training designed around the skills your people need, the work they do, and the problems your organization is trying to solve.

Data Analytics, Simplified® partners with employers, workforce organizations, nonprofits, public-sector organizations, and other teams to deliver applied training in Excel, SQL, Power BI, and data analytics.

Whether you are strengthening the capabilities of an existing team or preparing participants for more data-driven work, training is designed to move beyond tool demonstrations and help learners apply what they are learning in practical context.

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Who We Help

DAS partners with organizations that want to strengthen how their people work with data, reporting, and analytics.

This may include:

  • Employers building Excel, SQL, Power BI, or broader analytics capability across teams
  • Workforce development and community organizations preparing participants for more data-driven work
  • Nonprofits and public-sector organizations strengthening reporting, data literacy, or analytical capability
  • Teams introducing new reporting processes, systems, or technology
  • Organizations that want to reduce reliance on a small number of “go-to” employees for data and reporting tasks
  • Departments that need a stronger, more consistent baseline of data skills

Training can support both existing employees who need stronger technical skills and participants preparing for more data-enabled roles.

Practical. Applied. Intentional.

DAS training is designed around application, not passive instruction.

Practical

Training focuses on the skills participants are most likely to use in real work, not unnecessary complexity for its own sake.

Applied

Participants work directly in Excel, SQL, Power BI, or the relevant tool using realistic business and reporting scenarios. They practice cleaning, querying, analyzing, visualizing, and building outputs rather than simply watching demonstrations.

Intentional

Training is designed around what the organization is trying to accomplish, the learners involved, and the level of capability they need to build.

Training Areas

Excel Training

Strengthen practical spreadsheet skills for reporting, analysis, data organization, and everyday business use.

Training can include:

  • Data cleaning and organization
  • Formulas and functions
  • Lookups and logical functions
  • PivotTables and analysis
  • Reporting and visualization
  • Applied Excel workflows

SQL Training

Build stronger capability working with relational data and querying information to answer business questions.

Training can include:

  • SQL and relational database foundations
  • Data retrieval and filtering
  • Aggregations and summaries
  • Joins and table relationships
  • Conditional logic
  • CTEs, subqueries, and applied query development

Power BI Training

Help teams turn data into clearer, more useful reports and dashboards.

Training can include:

  • Data preparation with Power Query
  • Basic data modeling
  • DAX foundations
  • Interactive reports and dashboards
  • Visualization and report design
  • Communicating insights to stakeholders

Customized Data & Analytics Training

Training can also be designed around broader reporting, data literacy, analytics workflows, or organization-specific needs that do not fit neatly into a single tool.

Training can be tailored to your team’s current skill level, tools, workflows, roles, and organizational goals. Where appropriate, exercises and examples can also reflect the types of reporting, data, and business scenarios your team encounters in its work.

Training Formats

DAS team and workforce training can be structured to fit the needs of your organization, participants, and schedule.

Options may include:

  • Live Virtual Training for distributed teams or organizations that prefer remote delivery
  • Private Team Cohorts designed for employees within the same organization or department
  • Workforce Program Cohorts for participants enrolled through a workforce development or community-based organization
  • Custom Workshops focused on a specific tool, reporting need, or business problem
  • Multi-Session Training Series for organizations that need more structured skill development over time

Scheduling, session length, cohort size, and training depth can be adjusted based on the engagement.

The format should support the learning goal, not force the learning goal to fit a preset format.

How the Training Engagement Works

Every engagement starts with understanding the organization, the learners, and the outcome you are trying to achieve.

1. Discovery
We discuss your team, current challenges, training goals, skill levels, tools, timeline, and expected outcomes.

2. Training Design
DAS recommends the appropriate format, topics, level of depth, and delivery structure based on what we learn during discovery.

3. Delivery
Participants complete live, applied training using realistic examples, exercises, and business scenarios.

4. Reinforcement & Follow-Up
Depending on the engagement, support may include practice resources, recordings, reference materials, additional sessions, or follow-up recommendations.

You are not purchasing a generic training package. The engagement is designed around what your organization actually needs people to be able to do.

Outcomes That Matter

DAS works with your organization to define what participants should be better equipped to do after training.

Depending on the engagement, outcomes may include:

  • Complete reporting tasks more independently
  • Use Excel more efficiently and accurately
  • Write and interpret practical SQL queries
  • Build or improve Power BI reports and dashboards
  • Apply stronger data-cleaning and validation practices
  • Translate business questions into analytical tasks
  • Communicate findings more clearly to stakeholders
  • Build greater consistency in how teams work with data

Where appropriate, applied exercises, assessments, or project work can be used to evaluate participant understanding.

The goal is not simply to complete training. It is to strengthen what participants can actually do with data afterward.

Why Data Analytics, Simplified®?

Effective technical training requires more than knowing how to use a tool. It requires understanding how data is actually used inside organizations.

Data Analytics, Simplified® brings together active industry experience, practical instruction, and a business-first approach to data training.

13+ Years of Data & Analytics Experience
Founder Lorita Shaw, MBA, is an active Senior Data Engineer with experience across analytics, business intelligence, data engineering, and business analysis.

Experience Across Complex Environments
DAS brings experience from healthcare, public sector, clinical research, insurance, bioscience, and enterprise technology environments.

Training Led by Working Practitioners
DAS instructors are experienced data professionals who bring current, real-world knowledge into the classroom.

Business Context Matters
We teach technical skills in the context of the work they support, helping participants understand not only how to use a tool, but how that tool helps answer questions and solve problems.

Training Built to Fit the Engagement

Team and workforce training is scoped based on the needs of your organization rather than priced as a standard individual enrollment.

Pricing may vary based on:

  • Number of participants
  • Training topic and technical depth
  • Number and length of sessions
  • Level of customization
  • Delivery format
  • Assessments, projects, or supplemental resources

After an initial conversation, DAS will recommend an appropriate training structure and provide a customized scope and pricing proposal.

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Strengthen the Way Your Team Works With Data

Whether you are building technical capability across an existing team, supporting a workforce program, or preparing employees for more data-driven responsibilities, DAS can help design training around what your people actually need to do.

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