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About the Course

How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of this critical, foundational, business skill. Through a series of short lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, you’ll learn the key ideas and process of quantitative modeling so that you can begin to create your own models for your own business or enterprise. By the end of this course, you will have seen a variety of practical commonly used quantitative models as well as the building blocks that will allow you to start structuring your own models. These building blocks will be put to use in the other courses in this Specialization....

Top reviews

AP

Jun 15, 2019

Very clear and articulate explanation of the concepts. He doesn't skip a step in the sequencing ideas, drawing comparisons and differences, and illustrating both visually and story-telling. Excellent.

NC

Jul 30, 2019

Very nice course for beginner, the mathematic level is not high (around french baccalaureat) so available to everyone. I enjoyed a lot this course that show how simple math can be used in real life.

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By Bharat J

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Jun 20, 2020

Too descriptive for a quantitative course. Would've preferred more problem solving exercises.

By Eike A H

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Sep 9, 2019

-no explanation on errors

-too theoretical and abstract with lack of examples and own practice

By S B

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Mar 26, 2018

Could have been more advanced from the perspective of practical use-cases of data modeling.

By jyoti v

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Oct 23, 2018

The course is a bit too introductory for me. I'm looking for more challenging material.

By Kangkang W

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Oct 16, 2016

most contents are explicit on ppt, it is sometimes not necessary to view the lectures.

By Juan C P

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Aug 17, 2022

Ejercicios que requieran de mayor complejidad práctica pueden resultar beneficiosos

By Josh R

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May 17, 2020

Lots of information, not much opportunity to apply practical usage to the theories

By martino g

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Mar 30, 2020

Content is good but the teacher is extremely boring. Had to struggle to finish it.

By Paul M

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Jul 7, 2020

My name was spelled incorrectly on my certificate, how to do I correct this?

By Mathew L

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Apr 26, 2016

I would have liked the quizzes to explain why an answer was right or wrong.

By Brendan C

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May 22, 2018

good course, quizzes should not be locked though...disappointed with that.

By Deleted A

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Feb 19, 2018

I think the contents of this course can be more difficult and challenging.

By Michelle l G

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Feb 9, 2017

It was an interesting module, however, not sure how I will apply this in

By mugdha

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Nov 28, 2022

The course is great but a bit detailed one would actually be amazing.

By Gary V

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Jul 11, 2017

Very basic things that any person with a stats background should know

By Alec E

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Jul 23, 2020

Not that enjoyable. Decent information but pretty boring to watch.

By Abhed M

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Jan 12, 2020

It should be more rigorous. I completed this course in three days.

By Chalal S

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Oct 8, 2021

The explaining is good, but the concepts in the course are basic.

By Dominique B

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Apr 8, 2020

a bit too simple, I would have expected more practical excersises

By TheSovereignIndividual

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Apr 13, 2020

Nice, course - could spend more time on practice and examples.

By Anup K D

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May 2, 2021

Need more examples. Logarithmic Regression was not very clear

By mariisha

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Jun 10, 2023

Too simplistic and would benefit from more in-depth content

By Bunta S

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Oct 14, 2022

This course is mainly on statistic not finance modeling.

By Olivia X

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Sep 18, 2016

too easy. not enough practical skills or tools teaching

By Abhishek P

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Feb 9, 2017

There should be lab or hands one calculation exercise.