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About the Course

The Business Analytics Capstone Project gives you the opportunity to apply what you've learned about how to make data-driven decisions to a real business challenge faced by global technology companies like Yahoo, Google, and Facebook. At the end of this Capstone, you'll be able to ask the right questions of the data, and know how to use data effectively to address business challenges of your own. You’ll understand how cutting-edge businesses use data to optimize marketing, maximize revenue, make operations efficient, and make hiring and management decisions so that you can apply these strategies to your own company or business. Designed with Yahoo to give you invaluable experience in evaluating and creating data-driven decisions, the Business Analytics Capstone Project provides the chance for you to devise a plan of action for optimizing data itself to provide key insights and analysis, and to describe the interaction between key financial and non-financial indicators. Once you complete your analysis, you'll be better prepared to make better data-driven business decisions of your own....

Top reviews

RR

Oct 10, 2020

Before joining this course i was not aware the different methods, techniques and tools of data analytics. This course gave me an immense knowledge bank to understand, read and represent the data

S

Apr 5, 2021

Amazed at the quality and liveliness of the course. By far the best course I have taken with Coursera. Many thanks to the Faculties who put this up and fellow students providing peer review.

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By Nazatul A B A R

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Jun 29, 2017

the course is very helpful us in preparing the analysis before implement the project.

By PALAK S

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Oct 4, 2019

helped me in gaining a practical insight into the whole specialization. very helpful

By Aviral S

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Jun 17, 2020

More data can be provided to implement solutions to real business scenarios.

By Raul S d P

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May 9, 2016

If data could be shared, it would make the capstones project more practical.

By Kartik K

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Jun 22, 2020

A relatively, satisfying conclusion, to the journey.

By Yew C C

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Feb 27, 2017

Interesting course. Wish there is more hands-on.

By Shankar S

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May 30, 2020

Nice experience. Enjoyed the specialization.

By Cham B G

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Jul 11, 2017

good and relevant course, bit technical.

By Venkatesh G

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Nov 1, 2016

Great experience, esp. the peer review.

By Emil B

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Jan 17, 2017

Very interesting and thoughtful stuff!

By Ivonne J

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Apr 13, 2023

I have learned a lot in this course .

By Rubén G G

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Apr 10, 2017

Topic was good and up-to-date

By Emi H

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Jun 22, 2017

I really enjoyed this

By Amy E

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Mar 14, 2018

it was fun

By LUIS H B

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May 15, 2016

Even do the Research subject was very interesting, this capstone was a total disappointment.

The Capstone did not offer very much support and the final review was performed for peers without previous knowledge and experience, receiving peer's complaints due to the fact that many got bad grading.

Also, many peers complaint about the image of the Specialization Certificate for not being designed professionally and many felt that they petitions where overlook.

By Chi C D P

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May 9, 2016

Very nice and interesting subject. Updated information materials. Peer reviewing is not sufficient for grading a Capstone Project. A raw case + hands-on quizzes would help frame/evaluate the capstone project, instead of having a dedicated Wharton personnel to grade presentations.

By Morten B

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May 19, 2016

Good to be able to apply the lessons from the individual courses in one, single project, but I missed having actual teachers to review my work as well

By Sangeeta V

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May 10, 2016

the capstone project had peer reviews, requesting you to consider executive feedback, otherwise i am not able to actually judge the quality of my work

By Rami S

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Aug 6, 2016

good closing course but peer reviewing and no prof is little untraditional.

By Jason G

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Sep 25, 2017

Lots of the instructions and expectations were not clear.

By Ramesh C C

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Apr 4, 2020

Not happy with the structure of the course and the details provided on how to succeed on the course. I had to research a lot online to get info on peer graded assignments and how the course works. Coursera help support was good. I got information from them as well on chat support. Lot of which could have been provided within the course itself.

By Frederic L

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May 19, 2016

I was disappointed by the Capstone. I expected we would get some data set we would use to apply the analytics skills we learned. Instead we got an "open-ended" problem description with few if any input on Yahoo's operations. The only data available was public data (e.g. annual report, executive interviews, etc.).

By Jesse S

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Aug 20, 2023

Combining multiple analytic methods into a single project has considerable learning value. In this case, it could not overcome the lazy, half-hearted course planning put into the Customer and People Analytics modules which formed the core methods on which the capstone project relies.

By Ria C

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Oct 26, 2016

The whole course is nice and there were lot of new things to learn. I am not from an IT background but still found it very useful. However the capstone was a bit of disappointment. I believe they should have included some teaching authority to check the Capstone projects for my better understanding. The whole capstone is reviewed by peers which is great but as per certification I believe there should be some professional help too. I even tried to speak to someone over the phone but there was no number available. I ended up with chatting with some one on the help center but that was not very helpful either. The course content for operation analytics and People Analytics were indeed very useful. Thanks.

By Salvador N

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Aug 9, 2016

The preceding courses were interesting and helpful. This capstone project lacked substance. The project did not allow itself to apply many of the concepts learned throughout the course. It's almost exclusively about customer analytics. I would not be surprised if Yahoo! worked with Wharton and Coursera to launch this course in order to crowd-source ideas on how to turn around the company.