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Post Graduation Upskilling Overview

Introduction

Throughout the program you developed a foundation of skills to transition you to a new career. Now we focus on positioning you in the job market.

The best evidence of your current skill set is your github profile. Every project repository is a demonstration of your experience and readiness to be employed. During the program itself there is often not much time to fine tune the details of your work. Two sections of the upskilling track walk you through the steps of making your project repositories shine.

To enhance your skillset, you will practice SQL and learn introductory R and Tableau. SQL and R are repeatedly listed (with Python) as the skills most desired by employers due to their high use in the industry. Tableau is used across consulting firms and government agencies.

The topics will distributed over four weeks, and should take around 20 hours per week. Each topic will focus on a deliverable you can add to your portfolio or enhance an existing one.

The specific goals of the track is to:

Objectives

You will be able to:

• enhance your project portfolio to attract employers
• deepen SQL skills through practice
• import data into Tableau and build visualizations
• create interactive Tableau dashboards
• use the tidyverse to organize and clean data in R
• use ggplot to create visualizations in R
• use caret to create a predictive model in R

Weekly Overview

Week	Topic	Estimated Hours
Week #1	Introduction	2
Week #1	Woo-Ing Employers: GitHub	13
Week #1	Tableau Part I	10
Week #1	SQL Part I	5
Week #2	Woo-Ing Employers: Slides	8
Week #2	Tableau Part II	10
Week #3	R Part I	5
Week #3	SQL Part II	5
Week #3	Tableau Part III	10
Week #4	R Part II	10
Week #4	SQL Part III	5
Week #4	Starting A New Project	3

Summary

Let's not wait any longer! Let's get to it!