Data Analytics in Business

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Overview

Data Analytics in Business

Course Description

Businesses, consumers, and societies leave behind massive amounts of data as a by-product of their activities. Leading-edge companies in every industry are using analytics to replace intuition and guesswork in their decision making. As a result, managers are collecting and analyzing enormous data sets to discover new patterns and insights and running controlled experiments to test hypotheses. This course, part of the Analytics: Essential Tools and Methods MicroMasters program, prepares you to understand data and business analytics and become a leader in these areas in business organizations. It will illustrate the processes of analytics by allowing you to apply business analytics algorithms and methodologies to real- world business datasets from finance, marketing, and operations. The use of real-world examples and cases places business analytics techniques in context and teaches you how to avoid the common pitfalls, emphasizing the importance of applying proper business analytics techniques.

Course Content

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Session Details

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for those with an interest in the process of transforming data into insights for making better business decisions.

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What You Will Learn

  • How to develop and execute analytical projects within business organizations
  • How to use analytics software to generate predictions and business insights
  • How to "speak analytics" with executives, managers, and data scientists
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How You Will Benefit

  • Understand data and business analytics.
  • Become a leader in data and business analytics in business organizations.
  • Interact intelligently on the topic of business analytics with chief analytics officers, business managers, and data scientists.
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