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About the 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....

Top reviews

AC

Nov 2, 2018

really good bases for business metric if you already have a background you are going to enjoy and refresh you memory and if you don't have previous experiences is really easy to understand the concept

AS

Jun 11, 2020

It is a business centred course that will help you understand the most important metrics. It includes comprehensive glossaries and lectures that will help you in the process and a lot of case studies.

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By Deleted A

Jan 18, 2016

Good introductory course, but some kinks need to be worked out particularly in regards to the lectures and assignments.

By Therese C

Jul 19, 2020

Helpful content, good course. I wish that it had been organized a little more intuitively- it felt somewhat scattered.

By Mangesh S R

Jul 12, 2020

Was a good course. Gave me insights on various topics. It also introduced me to various aspects in working of a firm.

By Ali H

Oct 7, 2021

It was a great experience, some topics should have been discussed in detail, especially statistics related concepts.

By Eujee A

Jul 27, 2020

Need more in depth information on the IRR, etc if we are going to also present the concepts in mathematical manners.

By Alejandro S

Oct 29, 2016

Good overall. Some of the material was very basic, but it does give a good foundation to build on. I recommend it.

By Piyush G

Apr 26, 2019

Course was explained very well but I didn't get the point of including investment lectures with business metrics.

By Gabriele G

Jul 10, 2017

Nice introduction to business metrics but last week lesson was too hard to understand without business knowledge.

By Russell F

Aug 25, 2016

Informative course, the final case study could be beefed up a bit to make the quantitative material stick better.

By ABHISHEK C

Jul 25, 2020

A great course and a great teacher. Some of the topics were rushed through but most of the course was a breezer

By Ahmed M

Apr 6, 2020

The course is amazing but it need to be more simplified for those who didn't study economic and business before

By Stephanie H

Apr 27, 2018

Is is useful for beginner with no business sense to understand business problem from a business analyst version

By Renato A

May 16, 2017

Very nice course with a good overview of business metrics and how to impact business process from data analysis

By Cynthia N

Feb 7, 2016

Great class and great intro to get excited about data analysis! Very good class for people with any background.

By Mark A C

Dec 10, 2015

Good course that introduces the idea of metrics. If you already work with metrics, you will not learn much new.

By PRATIK J

Jun 12, 2020

Great course with very important topics covered.Very good way of explaining the topics and brilliant examples.

By Riyad K

Jul 11, 2017

I like the whole course but you need to work on the the resources/slides. there is a huge room for improvement

By Cesar O P R

Apr 21, 2016

I like the course. It was interesting the way that introduces the basic for doing analysis in a real company.

By GBT

Nov 6, 2018

I thought it was a good course with good substance. Could use a little more substance but still good course.

By Natalia G

Nov 13, 2017

It gives you an overall idea of what business metrics are. Very helpful as an introduction to data analysis.

By Chris K

Aug 24, 2017

There's a few old errors that haven't been fixed in math etc... - it's informative course. Good instruction.

By Victoria D

Dec 12, 2019

very good for entry-level business acknowledge, if could add more for data-driven companies will be better.

By Marianne J

Feb 21, 2017

Course was great. Not sure I agree with all the peer grading I received, but the instruction was excellent.

By Fritz G

Dec 11, 2016

I find this course very useful and helpful. Its is a core to data analysis using Excel and I learned a lot.

By Luis D M M

Jun 7, 2023

Very descriptive and easy to follow. Clear explanation and enough hands-on to understand crucial content.