15 Best Data Analytics Courses for Beginners
We compared 15 Data Analytics courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $389.00. 7 come from a named university or institution, including Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, University of Michigan and University of Colorado Boulder. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $19.99 – $389.00
- Providers
- Coursera, edX, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, Udemy, matched to "data analytics" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $389.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Data Analytics
Offered by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Welcome to Introduction to Data Analytics! This course will guide you through the essential techniques for working with data, equipping you with skills used by data experts across industries. You’ll explore how to clean...
$49.00listed price -
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Fundamentals of Data Analytics in the Public Sector with R
Offered by University of Michigan
Gain a foundational understanding of key terms and concepts in public administration and public policy while learning foundational programming techniques using the R programming language. You will learn how to execute fu...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Data Analytics for Business
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This course will expose you to the data analytics practices executed in the business world. We will explore such key areas as the analytical process, how data is created, stored, accessed, and how the organization works...
$79.00listed price -
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Python for Finance: Investment Fundamentals & Data Analytics
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Data Analytics in Google Cloud
Offered by Google Cloud
Welcome learner! This is the first of five courses of the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate. Jump into the world of data analytics and cloud computing. Explore the data lifecycle in the cloud and gain a better unde...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Transforming with Data Analytics and the Digital Organization
Offered by The University of Maryland, College Park
Learn how data analytics powers the digital organization and gives it a competitive edge.
$249.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditData Analytics Foundations: A Beginner’s Guide
Offered by BoxPlay
Understand how to drive your decision making and innovate using data analysis.
$389.00listed price -
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Introduction to Decision Science for Marketing
Offered by O.P. Jindal Global University
What if you could use customer data to make smarter marketing decisions, predict customer behaviour, and create more valuable customer relationships? Introduction to Decision Science for Marketing helps you move beyond o...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Business Analytics and Information Economics
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This specialization targets learners who seek to understand the opportunities that data and analytics present for their organization and those interested in the value of and implications for data as an asset to their org...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to EdTech
Offered by EDHEC Business School
Co-developed by Supercharger Ventures and EDHEC Business School. EdTech, short for Education Technology, is one of the most exciting sectors in the economy today poised to re-shape how education systems work and how peop...
$49.00listed price -
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Splunk Enterprise Administration Fundamentals
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
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Fundamentals of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Offered by Amazon Web Services
In this course, you will learn about the foundations of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). You will explore the connections between AI, ML, deep learning, and the emerging field of generative artific...
$49.00listed price -
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Build Interactive Data Apps with R Shiny Fundamentals
Offered by EDUCBA
Learners will build foundational skills to design, develop, and deploy interactive data visualization applications using R Shiny. By completing this course, learners will be able to explain the core architecture of Shiny...
$49.00listed price -
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SAP BW/4HANA Certification Training (beginner to expert)
A warm welcome to the SAP BW/4HANA course by Uplatz.SAP BW/4HANA module is a packaged data warehouse based on the in-memory architecture SAP HANA. As the on premise data warehouse layer of SAP's Business Techno...
$19.99listed price -
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Introduction to Data Warehouse
A Data warehouse is a database that is used for data analysis and reporting. It is a central repository for all the data that is needed for reporting and analysis. Data and analytics have become indispensable to business...
$19.99listed price
Best Data Analytics Courses for Beginners compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $389.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $369.01. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, edX and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 7 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, University of Michigan and University of Colorado Boulder — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.