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  "siteTitle": "Graduate School USA: Federal Data Analytics Training for Agencies",
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    "headline": "Federal data analytics training built around the questions your agency needs answered",
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      "body": "Every format draws on the same practitioner-built data analytics curriculum and instructors who have done the work. Choose what fits your headcount, timeline, and budget, or combine them.",
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        "Any course or certificate in our data analytics catalog, delivered onsite, live online, or blended",
        "A new course built to your specification when nothing off-the-shelf fits",
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        "Rostering, progress, and completion reporting for the whole group"
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        "A published schedule across the federal data analytics curriculum, entry to advanced",
        "Live online, or in person at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC",
        "No minimum headcount and no setup: register and go",
        "The same instructors and materials as our private cohorts"
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      "heading": "From spreadsheets to statistics to dashboards",
      "body": "Start with the fundamentals of data analysis and statistics, then build the tool skills your work actually calls for across Excel, SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, and AI.",
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          "meta": "66 hours",
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          "level": "Certificate",
          "name": "Data Analytics and AI Certificate",
          "covers": "The analytics track plus applied AI for working with agency data.",
          "meta": "210 hours",
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          "level": "Certificate",
          "name": "Data Science and AI Certificate",
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          "level": "Certificate",
          "name": "SQL Certification",
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          "meta": "24 hours",
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          "level": "Certificate",
          "name": "Python Certification",
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          "meta": "33 hours",
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          "level": "Certificate",
          "name": "Business Analysis Certificate Program",
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          "meta": "12 days",
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          "label": "Email the group training team",
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      "heading": "An established federal training institution",
      "body": "Graduate School USA's federal data analytics curriculum is designed and taught in-house by practitioners who have helped agencies turn data into decisions, not licensed from a generic library.",
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          "q": "What's new in your federal data analytics training?",
          "a": "Our curriculum is refreshed to current federal law, policy, and practice; we added new AI courses for the federal workforce; courses now run in a modern learning portal, and self-paced courses add an always-available AI coach; and self-paced online options let a learner start anytime and still take the live class for free within a year."
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      "area": "Data analysis foundations",
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      "area": "Statistics for analysis",
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        {
          "label": "Tools for Management Analysis",
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        {
          "label": "Cost-Benefit Analysis Workshop",
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        {
          "label": "Introduction to Program Evaluation",
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      "area": "Excel for analytics",
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          "label": "Excel for Data Analytics",
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        {
          "label": "Excel Expert Certification",
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        {
          "label": "Power Query Bootcamp",
          "href": "https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/power-query-course"
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    {
      "area": "SQL and databases",
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        {
          "label": "SQL Certification",
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        {
          "label": "SQL Server Bootcamp",
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        {
          "label": "Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)",
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        {
          "label": "Advanced Power BI Course",
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        {
          "label": "Power BI Certification",
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        {
          "label": "Self-Paced Power BI Certification",
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        {
          "label": "PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst",
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          "label": "Data Science and AI Certificate",
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      "area": "AI for analytics",
      "note": "Put AI to work on your data without the hype.",
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        {
          "label": "AI for Data Analytics",
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        {
          "label": "Data Analytics and AI Certificate",
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      "area": "Data storytelling and reporting",
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        {
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          "label": "Data Analytics with Excel, SQL and Tableau",
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