Businesses run on data, and data offers little value without analytics. The ability to process data to make predictions about the behavior of individuals or markets, to diagnose systems or situations, or to prescribe actions for people or processes drives business today. Increasingly many businesses are striving to become “data-driven”, proactively relying more on cold hard information and sophisticated algorithms than upon the gut instinct or slow reactions of humans.
This course is part of the Introduction to Business Analytics and Information Economics Specialization

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Overview & Module 1 Analytics Beyond the Spreadsheet
Module 2 Industry and Business Function Analytics
Module 3 Staffing and Organizing for Analytics
Module 4 Analytics Success Today and Tomorrow
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- 5 stars70.81%
- 4 stars22.95%
- 3 stars4.28%
- 2 stars0.77%
- 1 star1.16%
TOP REVIEWS FROM BUSINESS ANALYTICS EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
Good course that gives knowledge about key positions in an organization.
For a person who does not have much knowledge about Data Analytics, it was very well explained and presented.
The course is great overall, but sometimes the language as in the English of the lecture is difficult to understand.
knowledgeable and a lot of insight towards the role of analytics in the business world and in a nations economy and its different elements.
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