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About the 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....

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NM

Jul 22, 2017

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.

SB

Apr 9, 2020

Amazing learning, easy to follow descriptive examples, enough detailed content and examples to go in depth in the subjects. I really appreciate how well put together this program is. Thank you!

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By Rajat J

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Apr 3, 2018

excellent foundation laying concept-solid course!

By Ibrahim B

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Jan 20, 2018

Very well taught and effective course. Thank you!

By Zeming Y

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Nov 29, 2017

Excellent introduction to statistics and modeling

By Paulo G

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May 6, 2022

It's a good review on math and statiscal issues!

By Ella R

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Dec 3, 2021

The course was very helpful and easy to follow!

By shivam p

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Dec 3, 2021

One of the best course of quantitative modelling

By Rohit k

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Apr 2, 2021

Awesome content by the creators , learnt a lot .

By Mariam C

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Nov 22, 2020

IT IS VERY HELPFULL , I REALLY LOVE THIS COURSE

By Danielle A

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Jul 28, 2020

Amazing. Mr. Waterman explained the course well.

By Mythri K

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May 14, 2020

Helped me build my basics in Financial modelling

By Ankam R

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Oct 15, 2017

Very easily explained. Nice teaching methodology

By Chandan S

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Nov 12, 2016

A well designed course and an excellent faculty.

By Afrem S

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Jun 26, 2016

The course content is remarkably well explained.

By Shaimak R V

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May 1, 2016

Perfect if you want to get your basics straight.

By Vidhya K

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Feb 11, 2016

Clarity of the contents discussed was excellent.

By cL_Chowi

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Sep 23, 2022

I really like this course, easy to understand.

By Meghana N

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Jul 5, 2020

It's a great course. I loved doing this course.

By Soham A A

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Jun 22, 2020

good course , a complex wording but well taught

By Raphael L

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Mar 8, 2019

Clear and concise explanations of the concepts.

By Lorenzo L

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Feb 26, 2018

i enjoyed learning as professor is a smart man.

By Anjali A

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Dec 22, 2017

Very precise and clear topics. Great professor!

By Valentina C

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Nov 24, 2016

I really like this course. Excellent professor.

By diego p

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May 8, 2025

Excellent and interesting educational material

By Evan G

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Sep 30, 2018

Helpful base to learn the language of modeling

By shi w

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Sep 23, 2018

Easy but it will be a good fundamental course!