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GTx: Data Analytics for Business

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This course prepares students to understand business analytics and become leaders in these areas in business organizations.

Data Analytics for Business
16 weeks
10–12 hours per week
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
Free
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About this course

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Today, businesses, consumers, and societies leave behind massive amounts of data as a by-product of their activities. Leading-edge companies in every industry are using analytics to replace intuition and guesswork in their decision-making. As a result, managers are collecting and analyzing enormous data sets to discover new patterns and insights and running controlled experiments to test hypotheses.

This course prepares students to understand business analytics and become leaders in these areas in business organizations. This course teaches the scientific process of transforming data into insights for making better business decisions. It covers the methodologies, issues, and challenges related to analyzing business data. It will illustrate the processes of analytics by allowing students to apply business analytics algorithms and methodologies to business problems. The use of examples places business analytics techniques in context and teaches students how to avoid the common pitfalls, emphasizing the importance of applying proper business analytics techniques.

At a glance

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
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  • Associated skills:Decision Making, Scientific Methods, Business Analytics, Algorithms, Controlled Experiments, Data Analysis

What you'll learn

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After taking this course, students should be able to:

  • approach business problems data-analytically. Students should be able to think carefully and systematically about whether and how data and business analytics can improve business performance.
  • develop business analytics ideas, analyze data using business analytics software, and generate business insights.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

We will be learning business analytics with the help of open source and free software applications that are provided for educational use. Please follow instructions provided in their respective websites and install the following software in your personal laptop:

  • R – see https://www.r-project.org/
  • R Studio – see https://www.rstudio.com/

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners residing in one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

This course is part of Analytics: Essential Tools and Methods MicroMasters Program

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Expert instruction
3 graduate-level courses
Instructor-led
Assignments and exams have specific due dates
1 year
9 - 11 hours per week

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