This course is designed to impact the way you think about transforming data into better decisions. Recent extraordinary improvements in data-collecting technologies have changed the way firms make informed and effective business decisions. The course on operations analytics, taught by three of Wharton’s leading experts, focuses on how the data can be used to profitably match supply with demand in various business settings. In this course, you will learn how to model future demand uncertainties, how to predict the outcomes of competing policy choices and how to choose the best course of action in the face of risk. The course will introduce frameworks and ideas that provide insights into a spectrum of real-world business challenges, will teach you methods and software available for tackling these challenges quantitatively as well as the issues involved in gathering the relevant data.
This course is part of the Business Analytics Specialization
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Skills you will gain
- Simulation
- Mathematical Optimization
- Solver
- Decision Tree
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction, Descriptive and Predictive Analytics
Prescriptive Analytics, Low Uncertainty
Predictive Analytics, Risk
Prescriptive Analytics, High Uncertainty
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- 5 stars76.39%
- 4 stars19.17%
- 3 stars3.37%
- 2 stars0.56%
- 1 star0.48%
TOP REVIEWS FROM OPERATIONS ANALYTICS
The practical approach of teaching with the help of ms excel makes us understand the problem in much better way. I feel much more confident now with tips & tricks I learn through this course.
Course delivery, material , work sheet is excellent , I enjoyed throughout course , I had excellent learning for optimization , decision tree, simulation which will help me in my professional career.
Really enjoyed this course with not only learned the knowledge of operations analytics but also some excel tools I've never used or learned before. Great explanation on details in each week!
Excellente course. Very challenging especially for beginners. The motivation to achieve my final goal of reinventing myself professionally, makes every challenge a welcome experience. Thanks Coursera!
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