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Coding Is Table Stakes
Thinking Is Still The Skill
Think with Data is a live, online cohort built to prove that - before a single tool ever opens.
AI writes the formula now. Copilots build the dashboard. The tool stopped being the hard part a while ago - knowing what to ask it never did. This program trains the one skill that's still entirely yours, over 25 live sessions, 100% online.
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Thinking Is Taught
Tools Are Introduced
Business Problem → Analytical Thinking → Data → Tools → Business Decision
Most courses start with the tool and hope the thinking follows. This program does the opposite. Students learn to think with data first - on a whiteboard, with nothing but reasoning - before any software enters the room. Tools are introduced later, and only ever to do the one thing they're actually good for: processing more data, faster.
Coding Was The Skill
Now It's Table Stakes
AI copilots write the formula. Tools build the dashboard. LLMs generate the code. Execution - the part every other course teaches - is getting commoditized in real time. What's left, and what's scarce, is knowing what to ask, what to measure, and what a number actually means for a business.
- Writing Excel formulas
- Building a dashboard from a dataset
- Writing SQL or Python to pull data
- Cleaning and formatting a spreadsheet
- Generating a chart from a prompt
- Framing the right business problem
- Deciding what's actually worth measuring
- Spotting when a number is lying to you
- Turning an insight into a recommendation
- Knowing when the data isn't the answer
This program is built backwards from that reality. Tools are taught last because they matter least. Thinking is taught first because it's the only part of this job that isn't getting automated.
Five Phases
One Business Universe
Every phase builds on the last - the same six companies, escalating problems, no reset button.
Every session opens with a real business problem. Students frame it, question it, and decide what data would even help - before any tool is involved. Session 1 goes furthest back of all: before any company is even introduced, students learn what data analysis actually is, the Why-What-How framework, and where an analyst sits in the wider analytics pipeline. From there, all ten sessions run as discussion, live polls, and structured reasoning against the six recurring companies. By the end of Phase 2, students have proven the thinking works - with zero software involved.
Excel enters not as "the place where analysis happens" but as a processing tool - a way to handle data too large to work through by hand. The analytical mindset stays exactly what Phases 1 and 2 already built; Excel just gives it something to run against.
Power BI is the output layer, not a new way of thinking. It exists purely to make analysis interactive and shareable - presenting a conclusion the student already reached, not helping them find one.
A self-directed project spanning both tools, built against an escalated version of the six-company universe. This is where "thinking first" gets tested end to end - without a session structure to lean on.
What you'll learn here -
and where to go next
This program deliberately covers two tools: Excel and Power BI - just enough to prove the thinking works end to end. Once that judgment is built, picking up the next tool is a matter of weeks, not months. Here's the road, if you want to keep walking it.
the road keeps going, if you want it to
Query data straight from the source - skip the CSV exports entirely.
Automate what you just did by hand, and start building models on top of it.
Enterprise BI alternatives to Power BI - same judgment, different interface.
Work at the scale real companies actually store their data.
Direct the automation instead of being replaced by it.
Once you can think with data, every tool after this is just syntax.
Leave With A Portfolio
Not Just A Certificate
Every student graduates with three resume-ready projects.
Sales Diagnostic
A cleaned, Excel-based sales diagnostic - built on real-world messy data, not a tidy sample file.
Executive Dashboard
An interactive Power BI dashboard built to present a conclusion you already reached - not to help you find one.
Self-Directed Project
A capstone spanning both tools, against an escalated version of the six-company universe.
Five reasons this isn't
another Excel course
Thinking Is Taught Before Any Tool Exists
Session 1 doesn't introduce a company, a dataset, or software - it teaches what data analysis actually is and where an analyst sits in the pipeline. Every other program skips straight to "open Excel."
Ten Sessions, Zero Software
Four weeks of whiteboard reasoning against real business problems before a single spreadsheet opens. If you can't structure the problem out loud, you don't understand it yet - you've just found a chart that looks plausible.
Tools Introduced for What They're Actually For
Excel shows up to process data too large to handle by hand. Power BI shows up to make an already-reached conclusion interactive and shareable. Neither is ever taught as "where the thinking happens" - because it isn't.
One Business Universe, Escalating Stakes
Six recurring companies, six named stakeholders, problems that build across the program instead of resetting every session. By the capstone, you're not meeting a new dataset - you're solving the next problem in a business you already know.
A Portfolio That Proves Judgment, Not Just Output
Three projects, each with a written recommendation attached. Not "here's a chart" - "here's what the business should do, and why."
The Gap This Closes
88%
of business leaders say basic data literacy is now essential to day-to-day work - yet 60% report a skills gap in their organization.
SOURCE - DataCamp / YouGov, 2026 State of Data & AI Literacy Report
That gap isn't about access to tools - most professionals already have Excel, Power BI, even AI copilots that write formulas for them. What's missing is the judgment to ask the right question before opening any of them. This program builds that judgment first, deliberately, before a single tool enters the room.
SOURCE — Codio, 2025 Data Science & Analytics Talent Survey
56%+
Learn through real-world projects
of employers say new hires lack real-world, practical experience - with hands-on case studies and projects rated among the most effective ways to close that gap.
10 / 25
Reasoning before tools, every time
sessions in this program run before a single tool is opened - reasoning first, every time.
How the 8 weeks
Actually run
All 25 sessions live over video, no pre-recorded content - join from anywhere.
The first 10 sessions run entirely without software: discussion, live polls, structured reasoning.
Case materials for every phase, shared within 24 hours.
A community moving through the same 8-week arc together.
A verified Ankashram certificate, plus three resume-ready projects - the certificate says you attended, the portfolio proves what you can do.
Your Saarthee
Parul Shrivastava
Lead Saarthee, Ankashram
17 Years of Experience. One Strong Belief.
With 17 years of corporate experience across MNCs, fintech, EdTech, SaaS, consulting, banking, wealth management, and government, Parul had seen the same gap repeatedly: People who know Excel, Power BI, Python and AI - but still struggle to define the question they are solving.
Think with Data was built to fix that.
We believe facts that cannot be represented in numbers are often not understood deeply enough. Because analysis isn't about a tool. Analysis can happen anywhere - you just need to learn to think with data.
Think with Data starts before the tool.
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25 live sessions over 8 weeks, live Q&A throughout
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Ten sessions of pure analytical thinking - no software needed
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A consistent six-company business universe, escalating across the course
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Three resume-ready portfolio projects, each with a written business recommendation
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Session recordings and case materials for every phase
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Verified Ankashram completion certificate
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Seats are limited to keep the whiteboard sessions interactive.
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