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LSE: Data Analysis for Management

Learn the skills to analyse, interpret, and communicate data with confidence and impact within your organisation.

Learn the skills to analyse, interpret, and communicate data with confidence and impact within your organisation.

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This course is offered by , an edX partner
8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Apr 3, 2024
Enroll by Apr 9, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Apr 3, 2024
Enroll by Apr 9, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

As the world becomes more data driven, future-focused professionals need to develop the quantitative skills to inform corporate decision-making and managerial strategy. Guided by experts from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), this online certificate course empowers you with the knowledge and practical tools to understand, interpret, and communicate data relevant to your role and organization.

Develop an understanding of how data-driven models can improve your ability to make decisions in a fast-paced world. Over the course of eight weeks, you’ll participate in a capstone project and apply the techniques and concepts covered to extract business insights from a real data set. You’ll also gain experience using Tableau —– a leading business intelligence and data analytics software —– to visualize and report on insights extracted from data sets.

This LSE course will equip managers and analysts in a variety of industries with the skills to make data-driven decisions. Marketing and sales analysts will gain the ability to extract and interpret key business insights for competitive advantage. Similarly, finance, HR, and business analysts will develop data analysis skills that can be directly applied in their role and organization. There are no formal prerequisites for this course, but some numerical literacy is advantageous, as well as a basic working knowledge of Microsoft Excel. You’ll be granted a student license to download and use Tableau free of charge, for the duration of the course.

Course curriculum

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Expand your skill set to analyse, summarise, and report on insights extracted from data as you work through the weekly modules of this online certificate course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Decision-making under uncertainty

Module 2: Data visualisation and descriptive statistics

Module 3: Quantifying risk through probability

Module 4: Data integrity and statistical inference

Module 5: Evidence-based decisions

Module 6: Understanding the causes of things

Module 7: Time series forecasting

Module 8: Delivering insights through storytelling

About the certificate

Study how to make data-driven business decisions and earn an official certificate of competence from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

2.6X

The factor by which chief data officers (CDOs) can increase business value if they're involved in setting strategic objectives.

Gartner (Mar, 2021).

$6.4 billion

The projected value of the global marketing analytics market by 2026.

Research and Markets (Mar, 2022).

Why choose GetSmarter?

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