
Overview
The Advanced Business Analytics Specialization course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Colorado Boulder brings together academic professionals and experienced practitioners to share real world data analytics skills you can use to grow your business, increase profits, and create maximum value for your shareholders.
Key facts
- Learners gain practical skills in extracting and manipulating data using SQL code, executing statistical methods for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis, and effectively interpreting and presenting analytic results.
- The problems faced by decision makers in today’s competitive business environment are complex. Achieve a clear competitive advantage by using data to explain the performance of a business, evaluate different courses of action, and employ a structured approach to business problem-solving.
Applied Learning Project
- Throughout the specialization, you will apply the skills you learn to business problems and data sets.
- You will have opportunities to build conceptual models of business and simple database models, practice data extraction using SQL, apply predictive and prescriptive analytics to business problems, develop models for decision making, interpret the software output, and finally present results and share findings.
- We will use basic Excel and the software tool Analytic Solver Platform (ASP), which is a plug-in for Excel. Learners participating in assignments will be able to get free access to the software.
Skills you'll gain
- Data Analysis
- Business Analysis
- Data Management
- Probability & Statistics
- Decision Making
- Data Analysis Software
- General Statistics
- Data Visualization
- Mathematics
- Regression
- Mathematical Theory & Analysis
- Business Communication
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Courses included:
- Data Analytics for Business
- Predictive Modeling and Analytics
- Business Analytics for Decision Making
- Communicating Business Analytics Results
- Advanced Business Analytics Capstone
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Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
- 10 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
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Campus Location
- Mountain View, United States
Disciplines
Business Administration Business Intelligence International Business View 249 other Short Courses in Business Administration in United StatesExplore more key information
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Intermediate Level
- Some related experience required.
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Funding
Coursera provides financial aid to learners who cannot afford the fee. Apply for it by clicking on the Financial Aid link beneath the "Enroll" button on the left. You'll be prompted to complete an application and will be notified if you are approved. You'll need to complete this step for each course in the Specialization, including the Capstone Project.