

The company specialises in video-based technology training content. The goal has always been to engage learners through an immersive, hands-on learning approach. Stone River prides itself on releasing titles on the cutting edge of technology. The subject matter experts are deeply involved in the subjects they teach, so the courses go into great depth and provide learners with the skills they need to implement real-world solutions with a given technology.
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By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Outline the workflow of Google Analytics
- Define key terminologies of GA
- Compare the various types of reports in Google Analytics
- Explain how to create and share a customized GA dashboard
- Summarize the installation of Google Analytics code on your WordPress site
- Summarize gaining valuable insights from the various reports on GA
- Describe how to segment reports on Google Analytics
- Discuss how to set up campaigns and goals on Google Analytics
- State the steps to tracking YouTube channels on GA
- Recall how to set custom alerts on Google Analytics

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Analyze the elements of the Subplot2grid
- Recognize the process of adding legends to a chart
- Explain the uses of the high minus low indicator
- Outline the main Basemap customization options
- Describe the process of creating moving averages
- Discuss the commands used in Matplotlib
- Summarize the process of pulling pie chart pieces apart
- Explain the benefits of using stack plots
- List the examples of grid modifications you can make on the chart

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define the concept of database security
- Identify the various types of database inferences attacks
- Discuss the process of building MySQL Security Lab
- Analyze the architecture and exploits of MySQL
- Recognize the best practices of database security
- Summarize the notion of platform hardening
- Define the term "Data Storage Security"
- Describe the procedures for managing encryption keys
- Summarize the various types of disk storage
- Identify the most important best practices in key management
- Discuss the concept of big data
- Explain the various kinds of big data processing frameworks

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Outline the basic properties of Facebook marketing
- Define the concept of 'going viral' on Facebook
- Describe the various promotion channels
- Discuss the different pros and cons of using a Facebook personal page for marketing
- Explain the process of creating an effective Facebook business page
- Outline the concept of Facebook Marketplace
- Discuss the pros and cons of using 'buy and sell' local groups
- Explain the process of marketing using Facebook groups

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain what APIs are
- List the requirements needed to use APIs
- Recognize the time limitations that Twitter has
- Select specific times to obtain tweets
- Describe how to send a request to Twitter’s API
- Identify the methods of finding relevant data
- Indicate how to adjust and add ticks to graphs

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define the difference between Power BI Online and Power BI Desktop
- Summarize how to perform big data analytics using real world scenario
- Outline how to transform and customize big data
- Recall using Power BI Online and Power BI Desktop
- Discuss the process of downloading Power BI Desktop
- Describe how to create an online account for Power BI Online
- Indicate the manner to create powerful visualization based on big data
- Describe sharing dashboards with other users by emailing them directly or creating a URL link
- Recall asking questions of big data in plain English language

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the main logical and financial functions in a spreadsheet
- Compute values using the ‘if’ function
- Indicate arguments as true or false using the ‘and’ function
- Compare the uses of logical functions ‘and/if’, ‘iferror’ and ‘xor’
- List the uses of financial functions: present Value, future value, payment, price and yield
- Analyze data and information with the use of financial functions
- Identify the applications of ‘text’, ‘lookups’ and ‘reference’ functions in Excel
- Arrange data in a user-friendly format
- Classify data according to specified categories or values
- Summarize findings for meaningful reporting
- Compare the features of ‘lookup’ functions
- Select the right tabs and perform different tasks in Excel

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the functions and capabilities of Azure Stream Analytics (ASA)
- Recall how to input data into ASA
- Describe how to create queries and data analysis pipelines with ASA
- Discuss how to output the results of the data analysis pipeline to various output formats
- Explain how to work with ASA and Microsoft Power Business Intelligence
- Outline how to visualize your data






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