About this course: In this course, you will learn best practices for how to use data analytics to make any company more competitive and more profitable. You will be able to recognize the most critical business metrics and distinguish them from mere data. You’ll get a clear picture of the vital but different roles business analysts, business data analysts, and data scientists each play in various types of companies. And you’ll know exactly what skills are required to be hired for, and succeed at, these high-demand jobs. Finally, you will be able to use a checklist provided in the course to score any company on how effectively it is embracing big data culture. Digital companies like Amazon, Uber and Airbnb are transforming entire industries through their creative use of big data. You’ll understand why these companies are so disruptive and how they use data-analytics techniques to out-compete traditional companies.
Taught by: Daniel Egger, Executive in Residence and Director, Center for Quantitative Modeling
Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Taught by: Jana Schaich Borg, Assistant Research Professor
Social Science Research Institute
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Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization.
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| Commitment | 4 weeks, 3-5 hours per week |
| Language | English, Subtitles: Chinese (Simplified) |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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For what it is – a very basic introduction to business metrics with little to no technical knowledge – this is a decent and low-time-investment course. In a couple of days, you can complete this course and learn some common business jargon.
Excellent course. Broad overview of all of some of the necessary tools to analyze almost any company.
Short Course with lots of information. All information was explained well, and with much detail for us to look back on in later courses to achieve the accomplishment, that we are working towards in these courses.
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Very good foundation course on Business Analytics. I highly recommend it