Professional Programme
Data & Analytics
The hard part of data work is not the model. It is the extract that silently drops rows, the definition that two departments disagree about, and the chart that answers a question nobody asked.
Duration12 months · full-time
ModeOn campus, Thessaloniki
IntakeSeptember
Fee€5,200 total
What you will be able to do
- Build a reliable pipeline from raw export to a table you trust
- Define metrics so that two people computing them get the same number
- Choose the simplest analysis that answers the question
- Present a finding to a non-technical decision maker without overselling it
- Know when a result is too weak to act on
Modules
| Term 1 | Data wrangling Files, encodings, joins that lose rows, validation, reproducible notebooks. |
| Term 1 | SQL and modelling Window functions, aggregates, dimensional thinking, query performance. |
| Term 2 | Statistics for decisions Uncertainty, sampling, A/B tests, the difference between noise and a finding. |
| Term 2 | Visualisation Chart choice, scale, annotation, and the ethics of a misleading axis. |
| Term 3 | Applied machine learning Baselines first, leakage, evaluation, when not to use a model. |
| Term 3 | Delivery Stakeholder interviews, metric definitions, handover documentation. |
Northgate awards a certificate of completion for this programme. It is not a degree, and it does not carry accreditation from a national higher-education authority.