Claude Code for Data Analytics: Advanced Automation
Build agentic analysis pipelines with Claude Code: connect live data, author custom Skills, and generate executive reports end to end.
This is not a course about what data analytics is: it is about doing it at a new speed, with Claude Code as an agent that reads your files, writes and runs the code, connects to your live data, and produces the finished report.
You will build a repeatable, agentic analytics setup around one framework, the PIPE method:
- P, Project context. Teach Claude Code your data with a
CLAUDE.md, schemas, business rules, and the gotchas only your team knows. - I: Instructions as Skills. Install and author reusable Agent Skills so every analysis follows your standards.
- P: Plumbing via MCP. Connect Claude Code safely to live databases and spreadsheets, read-only by default.
- E: Execution with subagents. Run parallel, multi-stage pipelines that go from raw data to a verified report.
Every module points you to free, open-source resources: official Anthropic repos, community Skill libraries, and database connectors, and gives you copy-ready prompts.
Prerequisites
Comfort with spreadsheets and basic SQL, and the ideas from AI for Data Analytics: Foundations. You do not need to be a programmer: Claude Code writes the code, but you should be willing to work in a terminal.
What you will build
A working Claude Code analytics project: a CLAUDE.md, at least one custom Skill, a live-data connection, an automated pipeline, and a one-command executive report, plus the verification habits that keep agentic output trustworthy.