60-Day Data Analytics Roadmap (Checklist Format – HR-Focused)
Target Audience: HR professionals | Tools: Excel, SQL, Power BI | Goal: Become job-ready using free
resources
WEEK 1-2: Excel (Advanced + Power Query + Macros)
Topics to Cover: - [ ] Master XLOOKUP , INDEX-MATCH , TEXTJOIN , INDIRECT - [ ] Use Data
Validation, Conditional Formatting for HR use cases - [ ] Build Dashboards using Pivot Tables, Slicers,
Timelines - [ ] Learn Power Query for data cleaning & transformation - [ ] Automate tasks using VBA
Macros (Salary slip, Leave tracker)
📚 Free Learning: - [ ] Excel Exposure / ExcelJet / Chandoo.org / Leila Gharani (YT) - [ ] Great Learning
Excel Course - [ ] Coursera Excel Skills for Business (Audit)
Projects: - [ ] HR Attrition Dashboard - [ ] Salary Slip Automation with VBA - [ ] Leave Management &
Recruitment Tracker
WEEK 3-4: SQL (Intermediate to Advanced)
Topics to Cover: - [ ] Practice Joins, Subqueries, CTEs, Window Functions - [ ] Aggregate, Date
Functions, Data Cleaning - [ ] Create Views & Stored Procedures
📚 Free Learning: - [ ] Kaggle SQL - [ ] SQLZoo, LeetCode SQL - [ ] Mode SQL, HackerRank SQL
Projects: - [ ] HR Exit & Tenure SQL Report - [ ] Recruitment Funnel Dashboard in SQL - [ ] Finance
Expense Analysis with Queries - [ ] Retail Store Sales using Grouped Analysis
WEEK 5-6: Power BI (HR Analytics + Finance/Sales Dashboards)
Topics to Cover: - [ ] Connect to Excel/SQL via Power Query - [ ] Understand Model, Relationships, DAX
Measures - [ ] Time Intelligence: YoY, MoM, Cumulative Totals - [ ] Drillthrough, Bookmarks, UX features -
[ ] Publish via Power BI Service
📚 Free Learning: - [ ] Microsoft Learn - Power BI - [ ] Guy in a Cube (YouTube) - [ ] Great Learning –
Power BI
Projects: - [ ] HR Dashboard: Exit, Diversity, Headcount - [ ] Sales Dashboard: Actual vs Target - [ ]
Finance Dashboard: Expense & Budget - [ ] Employee Lifecycle Visual Report
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WEEK 7-8: Capstone + Portfolio Building
Final Projects: - [ ] End-to-End HR Dashboard (Cost, Performance) - [ ] Retail Store Performance Report
- [ ] Employee Engagement Survey Analytics - [ ] Budget vs Actual (Finance BI Dashboard)
📦 Upload Portfolio To: - [ ] GitHub – Code/Excel Models - [ ] Power BI Service – Interactive Dashboards -
[ ] Tableau Public (optional)
🎓 Final Certifications (Free to Audit): - [ ] Google Data Analytics - [ ] IBM Data Analytics – edX
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