About this course: How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of this critical, foundational, business skill. Through a series of short lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, you’ll learn the key ideas and process of quantitative modeling so that you can begin to create your own models for your own business or enterprise. By the end of this course, you will have seen a variety of practical commonly used quantitative models as well as the building blocks that will allow you to start structuring your own models. These building blocks will be put to use in the other courses in this Specialization.
Taught by: Richard Waterman, Professor of Statistics
Statistics-Wharton School
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Course 1 of 5 in the
Business and Financial Modeling Specialization.
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| Commitment | 4 weeks of study, 1-3 hours/week |
| Language | English, Subtitles: Russian |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Very good background to quantitative modelling. It gets a bit heavy on the mathematical formulas in places, but if you follow through, it helps cement understanding. Good speed/pace of material.
Straight forward and filled with useful information, not too complex but not too easy.
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This course is really good, but it would be nice of the professor would explain a little bit better the formulas of the course. I did buy the book written by the professor but still find it hard to solve some of the problems in the tests. Overall, great course!