Nearly every aspect of business is affected by data analytics. There are many powerful tools that can quickly process large amounts of data. For businesses to capitalize on data analytics, they need leaders who understand the data analytic process. Even more valuable are leaders who know how to analyze big data. This course addresses the human skills gap by providing a foundational set of data analytic skills that can be applied to many business settings.
Introduction to Business Analytics with R
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbout this Course
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
4 hours to complete
Course Overview and Module 1 Introduction to Business Analytics and R
In this module you will be introduced to the role of data analytics in business domains.
4 hours to complete
18 videos (Total 112 min), 5 readings, 2 quizzes
18 videos
Meet Prof Ron Guymon2m
Meet Prof Ashish Khandelwal50s
Introduction to Business Analytics and R6m
Lesson 1-1.1: Overview of Business Analytics3m
Lesson 1-1.2: Examples of Business Analytics5m
Lesson 1-1.3: FACT Framework7m
Lesson 1-2.1: Introduction to R6m
Lesson 1-2.2: Getting Started with R5m
Lesson 1-2.3: Calculations with R12m
Lesson 1-2.4: Making Your Code Readable4m
Lesson 1-3.1: Functions and Using the Built-In Help8m
Lesson 1-3.2: Reading and Writing Data12m
Lesson 1-3.3: Getting to Know Your Data 14m
Lesson 1-3.4: Getting to Know Your Data 27m
Lesson 1-3.5: Getting to Know Your Data 35m
Lesson 1-3.6: Introduction to Other Data Types12m
Module 1 Conclusion1m
5 readings
Syllabus10m
About the Discussion Forums10m
Glossary10m
Module 1 Overview10m
Module 1 Readings1h
2 practice exercises
Orientation Quiz
Module 1 Quiz30m
3 hours to complete
Module 2 Assembling Data
In this module you'll identify how framing a question and the intended analysis influence the way in which data is assembled.
3 hours to complete
14 videos (Total 111 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
14 videos
Lesson 2-1.1: Framing a Question6m
Lesson 2-1.2: Assembling Data7m
Lesson 2-1.3: Calculate the Results9m
Lesson 2-2.1: Data Types6m
Lesson 2-2.2: Packages9m
Lesson 2-2.3: Creating Date Types8m
Lesson 2-2.4: Calculations with Dates9m
Lesson 2-2.5: Factors9m
Lesson 2-2.6: Logical Type and Relational Operators11m
Lesson 2-3.1: Conditional Statements7m
Lesson 2-3.2: Stacking Data7m
Lesson 2-3.3: Loops8m
Module 2 Conclusion1m
2 readings
Module 2 Overview10m
Module 2 Readings10m
1 practice exercise
Module 2 Quiz30m
4 hours to complete
Module 3 Data Quality and Data Transformation
This module starts with a discussion on the importance of Data Quality in business analytics. Later, we learn Data Transformation using Tidyverse, a group of useful R packages.
4 hours to complete
13 videos (Total 65 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
13 videos
Lesson 3-1: Data Quality4m
Lesson 3-2.1: Data Structure based on the Business Problem Part 15m
Lesson 3-2.2: Data Structure based on the Business Problem Part 25m
Lesson 3-2.3: Subset Data using Filter and Select functions5m
Lesson 3-2.4: Useful Operators for Data Manipulation5m
Lesson 3-2.5: Creating New Variables using Mutate function3m
Lesson 3-2.6: Data Aggregation using Summarize and Group_By functions5m
Lesson 3-2.7: Handling Missing Values6m
Lesson 3-2.8: Data Join8m
Lesson 3-2.9: Long vs Wide Format for Data5m
Lesson 3-2.10: Manipulating Strings7m
Module 3 Conclusion55s
2 readings
Module 3 Overview10m
Module 3 Readings2h
1 practice exercise
Module 3 Quiz30m
4 hours to complete
Module 4 Exploratory Data Visualization using R
In this module, we will learn a powerful visualization package in ggplot2 to create useful visualizations for exploratory data analysis (EDA).
4 hours to complete
14 videos (Total 53 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
14 videos
Lesson 4-1: What to Explore in the Data?2m
Lesson 4-2: Univariate and Bivariate Exploration2m
Lesson 4-3.1: Introduction to the ggplot2 Package3m
Lesson 4-3.2: Introduction to ggplot Syntax4m
Leson 4-4.1: Univariate Exploration of a Numeric Variable5m
Lesson 4-4.2: Univariate Exploration of a Categorical Variable4m
Lesson 4-5.1: Visualizing Relationship between two Numeric Variables4m
Lesson 4-5.2: Visualizing Relationship between a Numeric and a Categorical Variable5m
Lesson 4-5.3: Visualizing Relationship between two Categorical Variables5m
Lesson 4-6: Multidimensional Charts6m
Lesson 4-7: Introduction to ggplot Builder7m
Module 4 Conclusion40s
Course Conclusion1m
2 readings
Module 4 Overview10m
Module 4 Readings40m
1 practice exercise
Module 4 Graded Quiz30m
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ANALYTICS WITH R
by NPMay 12, 2020
This class was great, you get to learn the basics of R, I have no previous experience with programming languages and I feel in a much better place, after taking this class. I highly recommend it.
by DRJun 13, 2020
Thank you for helping me in acquiring the knowledge of the analysis using the R studio. I have really got a good understanding of how does this is been applied in an organisation.
by ETSep 13, 2020
first part was easy to follow and last 2 week courses were too much focused on getting code drilled and not enough on what the code could be used for in real life.
by PPAug 13, 2020
Excellent, very intuitive course, a good way to start your journey with R and analytic career.
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