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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 Tasneem N E

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Nov 2, 2020

Professor didn't communicate the material in a way that was easy to understand

By Kia A

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Jun 29, 2022

Too theoretical, without much opportunity to practice and test knowledge

By Onanong C

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Apr 22, 2021

Bad quality of voice. On point is very loud and one point is too quiet

By Alia s

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Apr 27, 2020

at some point it was a little bit complicated for me

By Panagiotis

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Oct 25, 2016

A first year undergraduate student can pass this

By Andrea

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Jun 28, 2020

Really theoretical and not detailed

By Preet M

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Oct 6, 2024

very confusing not well explained

By Huihui C

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May 3, 2024

Really basic

By Zaynab T

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Jul 13, 2024

very basics

By Rob B

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May 12, 2016

I do not intend this to be mean, but I could not listen to Richard Waterman. I am British and I understand that Richard was born in the UK but spent a great many years in the US. If he had a BritiI really struggled to listen to him as his accent crosses the Atlantic several times a sentence. I found I couldn't listen to WHAT he was saying because I was so distracted by HOW he was saying it. I am sorry, there is probably nothing that he can do about it and the course looked very interesting but I simply could not bring myself to continue.

By Laura P

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Aug 7, 2020

Beware of Coursera and the $49 charges. I found that I am being charged $49 per month for each class that I signed up for. The $49 charges continue FOREVER, long the classes have been completed. When the credit card expired, I was kicked out of the class that I was in the middle of without warning. I am unable to reach anyone at Coursera to attempt to resolve the problems.

By Matheus V

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Jul 11, 2017

I thought that course was more specific. I will expect more applications examples.

By Jatin A

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May 6, 2022

This course needs compete new instructor & more use of excel

By sergio c

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Mar 31, 2024

You could explain how to solve the problems in the quiz.

By Ken W

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Jul 4, 2023

Too basic, not very helpful from practices point of view

By Anushka A

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Jul 14, 2023

this course is not working on laptop since day 1

By Shaina K

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Nov 30, 2017

It's too easy ... I can learn this on google.

By xiaoyan y

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Apr 24, 2018

boring, it doesn't like other quants course.

By Benjamin L

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Dec 12, 2021

worst speaker ever. Impossible to follow

By pierre r

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Feb 27, 2019

bof, pas assez concret pour mon travail

By Selin A

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Mar 3, 2024

it is not about financial modelling

By Pradeep K

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Jun 9, 2021

Just over view .... totally useless

By Swaroop K

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Jan 30, 2020

worst app for studying

By Winthrop Y

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Mar 4, 2016

Locked quizzes :(

By Daniel M

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Jun 29, 2017

it was trivial