1Leg 1Professional Certificate
No prerequisite
SQL for analysis
First, because legs 3 and 5 read their data through a query.
Weeks 1–340 hours$89Ana Reyes, verified instructor
13 of 25 done
Drafted by the tutor
Become a data analyst
Spreadsheets to SQL to a dashboard somebody else reads.
5 courses · 127 hours
Beginner to Intermediate
Taught by Ana Reyes and Ibrahim Salah
The five courses
Leg 2, finished
CourseNo prerequisite
Statistics without the proofs
It needs no SQL, so it can run beside the first. The tests in leg 4 stand on it.
Finished20 hours$49Ibrahim Salah, verified instructor
All 17 items done
3Leg 3
Professional CertificateAfter1 SQL for analysis
Python for data analysis
It picks up the tables your queries return and cleans them in pandas.
Weeks 3–740 hours$99Ana Reyes, verified instructor
4Leg 4
CourseAfter2 Statistics without the proofs, cleared
A/B tests you can defend
The statistics of leg 2, put to work on a decision somebody is waiting for.
Weeks 7–915 hours$69Ibrahim Salah, verified instructor
0 of 17 done
5Leg 5
Guided ProjectAfter1 SQL for analysis3 Python for data analysis
Dashboards people act on
Last, because a dashboard draws on legs 1 and 3. It is the piece you show.
Weeks 9–1012 hoursFreeAna Reyes, verified instructor
Already know one? Press “I know this” on its card and it comes off the schedule.
Your week
9 hours a week, until December 31, 2026. Sessions start at 7pm on weekdays and at 9am on weekends.
Mon2 h
7pm8pmTue1 h
7pmWed1 h
7pmThu1 h
7pmFriOff
Sat3 h
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Before you start
What to bring
A spreadsheet you have filtered and totaled. No code: the first course starts at SELECT.
When a week goes badly
Nothing expires. Lower the hours and the date moves, and the courses you own stay yours.
What the certificate asks
All five courses and their projects. A course you know counts once its project is reviewed.
One certificate for the whole path
It lists the five courses, their hours and their reviewed projects, and an employer can check it at its own address.
- Median salary
- $94,000
- First analyst role, reported by 1,840 graduates twelve months out.
- Open roles
- 8,200
- Named this skill path in their posting, on the boards we track.
- Hired within a year
- 71%
- Of those who finished the path rather than a single course.
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Questions
What people ask before they start a path
A person answers anything this list does not. Ask us.
No. The order is the tutor's advice: every course opens on its own, and each card says which courses it builds on. Take them in any order you like and the finish date is worked out the same way.
Yes. Any course in the catalog opens on its own and sits on your dashboard beside the path. The finish date counts only the five on it.
From lesson one at 9 hours a week, it runs 15 weeks, or 4 months of Waypoint Plus at $116. Bought one by one, the five courses cost $306 and stay yours. Below 3 hours a week, buying them is cheaper.
The courses you bought stay yours. The ones you took on Plus close until you start it again, and your progress waits where you left it.
Its teacher can update its lessons, and you keep your place in the ones you finished. If a course leaves the catalog, the tutor puts the closest one in its place and the path keeps its order.
It matches your goal to the courses in the catalog, then orders them by what each builds on. The instructors who teach them check that order, and the note on every card, before a learner sees it.
Pick the hours. Keep the date.
Lesson one of all five courses is free, with the tutor beside it. Plus opens everything else for $29 a month and stops when you do.
No card for lesson one. Plus cancels in one click.
