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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Business Analytics with Excel: Elementary to Advanced by Johns Hopkins University

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About the Course

A leader in a data driven world requires the knowledge of both data-related (statistical) methods and of appropriate models to use that data. This Business Analytics class focuses on the latter: it introduces students to analytical frameworks used for decision making though Excel modeling. These include Linear and Integer Optimization, Decision Analysis, and Risk modeling. For each methodology students are first exposed to the basic mechanics, and then apply the methodology to real-world business problems using Excel. Emphasis will be not on the "how-to" of Excel, but rather on formulating problems, translating those formulations into useful models, optimizing and/or displaying the models, and interpreting results. The course will prepare managers who are comfortable with translating trade-offs into models, understanding the output of the software, and who are appreciative of quantitative approaches to decision making. Business analytics makes extensive use of data and modeling to drive decision making in organizations. This class focuses on introducing students to analytical frameworks used for decision making to make sense of the data, starting from the basics of Excel and working up to advanced modeling techniques....

Top reviews

AS

Sep 30, 2023

Well guided course with gradually increasing difficulty level, yet explained in a lucid way. Next level (advanced) level courses are awaited from the faculty whose has immense knowledge of subject.

SR

Jul 23, 2024

Good course to follow if you are interested in expand your knowledge in excel data analysis, especially focusing on business analytics. Lectures and resource materials are very clear and helpful.

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By Samuel A D

Jun 3, 2024

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May 6, 2024

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Apr 20, 2024

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Jan 26, 2024

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Jan 24, 2024

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Dec 7, 2023

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Nov 21, 2023

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Oct 9, 2023

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Sep 22, 2023

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Jul 21, 2023

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Jan 16, 2024

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Jul 5, 2023

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By MICHELE F

Oct 10, 2024

ok

By Neelam P

Sep 11, 2024

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By Kevin A

Jan 28, 2024

5

By Scott G

Oct 30, 2023

Really great course and I learned a lot. Good production value and the work gets more challenging from problem set to problem set. I'll be better at Excel from having taken this course. The only drawback is I wish that I'd have known the last couple of weeks require the "Solver" add-in. I used the solver add-in, but somewhere in the process the version of solver changed in my excel installation....and it was REALLY buggy. Basically, solver was nearly unusable on my Excel, which made doing the work really more frustrating and distracting. Other than that, great course - hope Solver gets better!

By Kongpak P

Nov 11, 2023

Good for beginners to intermediate, some questions jump from being easy to hard in too short of a time, such as modeling complex questions like the midterms and finals, took me a long time to figure out with much guidance. But overall, if you are a beginner, it gives quite a clear outlook on the basics of excel formulas and functions. would definitely recommend, but can be some improvements. Good for refereshing your memory after college as well. But might need to dive into more important real world formulas like xlookup, hlookup, and the pivot table etc.

By Omar D V A

Jun 29, 2023

It is a great course; I learned a lot. However, I need to mention some exercises and quizzes seem to lack some background and, in some occasions, we do didn't have any idea of how to solve them (including the final project which required the inclusion of many constraints and conditions which we did not see as a complete exercise before). I did not receive any feed-back from faculty during the course, so it is more like self-paced and self-solving course, taking the advantages of videos and written material which were very helpful and well explained.

By Noelle S

Aug 4, 2023

Not bad! I'm a former high school math teacher. This was my first ever "business class," and while the instructor did a great job explaining everything going on in the spreadsheets, I felt a little behind in the business lingo. I had to do a lot of my own research to learn what NPV, ROI, etc. is. Which is not a problem, but it may be helpful to future learners to know they may need to get a little background knowledge on all the lingo here. Overall though, I learned a lot, and it was fun!

By Emmanuel J A

Jul 3, 2023

This is by far the most useful course I have taken on Coursera. Not a dull moment in this class. I like the application-based approach to instruction; it does not drown students in theory before jumping into the applications. Students complete this course with real, practical knowledge of business analytics using Excel. This course made me want to learn more about Management Science. I wish there were more courses like this!

By Marcos T K

Jul 17, 2023

A very interesting and useful course. The best part is that you have practices applicable to real situations from the first module. The professor explains very well. On the negative side, the final project stands out, as there is a solution with a higher objective than the one presented as corrected... despite the fact that in the discussion forums this doubt was raised, no one from the university learning team responded.

By Mohamed N

May 30, 2023

it's very good course in terms from beginner to good usage of business analytics in Excel , also I like that it teaches you though practical cases , the only problem is the final project quiz the two questions are not matching with each other first one you exclude some projects from approval then the second one every thing changes , anyway it's very powerful course

By Sheeba K

Apr 18, 2024

The quizzes were easy except for the Mid term Project and the Final Project. I think, they were purposely done and were made harder than the rest. I did complete the course in the first attempt of the final project, however, I am not happy with the final project performance and would revisit the solution provided at the end to analyze where I went wrong.

By Lieke L

Aug 28, 2024

It was a great course, learned some nice skills which will come in handy at uni & later at work. Sometimes it was a bit unclear what to do, especially with the quizes, it felt as if too little information was given. However, I enjoyed finding out how to do it and to really actively engaged in it and find out myself how to do it.