Business Analytics will help demystify data and strengthen your analytical skills. Beginning with basic descriptive statistics and progressing to regression analysis, you’ll implement analytical techniques in Excel and apply fundamental quantitative methods to real business problems—from performing A/B testing on a website to using sampling to check warehouse inventory.

Business Analytics introduces quantitative methods used to analyze data and make better management decisions. This course is not based on rote memorization of equations or facts, but focuses on honing your understanding of key concepts, your managerial judgment, and your ability to apply course concepts to real business problems.

Learn to develop a taxonomy of data analytic problem-solving strategies based on types of data, volume of data, and the nature of the business decision-making context that can serve you for the long term in your field of practice.

Learn to identify business (functional) area gaps that can benefit from data-driven decision making, identify various stakeholders for a data analytic problem-solving approach, and develop a template for stakeholder interactions.

Learn to combine business domain knowledge from decision makers with detailed steps that coordinate with the data analytics life cycle