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About the Course

In this course, you will learn best practices for how to use data analytics to make any company more competitive and more profitable. You will be able to recognize the most critical business metrics and distinguish them from mere data. You’ll get a clear picture of the vital but different roles business analysts, business data analysts, and data scientists each play in various types of companies. And you’ll know exactly what skills are required to be hired for, and succeed at, these high-demand jobs. Finally, you will be able to use a checklist provided in the course to score any company on how effectively it is embracing big data culture. Digital companies like Amazon, Uber and Airbnb are transforming entire industries through their creative use of big data. You’ll understand why these companies are so disruptive and how they use data-analytics techniques to out-compete traditional companies....

Top reviews

AC

Nov 2, 2018

really good bases for business metric if you already have a background you are going to enjoy and refresh you memory and if you don't have previous experiences is really easy to understand the concept

AS

Jun 11, 2020

It is a business centred course that will help you understand the most important metrics. It includes comprehensive glossaries and lectures that will help you in the process and a lot of case studies.

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By Jiaqi S

Jul 30, 2020

This course provides detailed introduction of business analysis, which is so great for people who are interested but new to this area.

By Mseddi S

Nov 28, 2018

It is a good course as a first level. but it is very theory.

For this Reason, I think that other courses will be more practical courses

By Linda C

Sep 24, 2016

Coursework enhanced my knowledge and armed me with information to speak with confident about the job I am pursuing next in my career.

By Wen

May 28, 2017

Good introduction to the role of business analyst and its related roles. This course sets a good foundation for the courses to come.

By Praveen G

Aug 26, 2020

Easy to follow. Could have have little better if we could download authors video explanation as a pdf version for future reference.

By Phani M G

Jun 27, 2020

Interesting case studies and relevant examples. Simple yet effective explanation of each concept. Final quiz is designed very well.

By Wayne S

Dec 6, 2015

This course starts off slow and gradually goes very deep into business metrics which provides a valuable view-point on the topic.

By Aazir M

Dec 3, 2017

Great course content, but could be improved by having more assignment and opportunities to test and share learning among peers.

By GURPREET S

Nov 9, 2019

This course is really useful for someone with non-technical background. Thank you professor for making such beautiful course.

By Henry Z

Nov 8, 2017

A good overview about the requirement of each of the data analyst job roles and the business metrics identified for analysis.

By Tong Y

Mar 4, 2018

The course is good for technical persons to start learning business language, however, it's too basic for business persons.

By FAN F

Oct 23, 2019

A good starter to understand business metrics. It would be better if include some new companies as the example to analyze

By 이상수

May 24, 2020

It helps me to study Business Metrics. This course contains many examples of Business Metrics of Data-Driven Companies.

By Eamonn F

Mar 21, 2016

a very good course.

i would like more questions in each video though - and more problems to solve too.

but great overall

By Dhananjay P

Mar 14, 2016

Good thought provoking class. A good foundation class to take before taking the MySQL or Tableau or Excel stats classes.

By Aqsa K

Dec 7, 2015

The course covers the basics with an in depth analysis to introduce you to the world of business metrics. Learned a lot.

By Deleted A

Jan 18, 2016

Good introductory course, but some kinks need to be worked out particularly in regards to the lectures and assignments.

By Therese C

Jul 19, 2020

Helpful content, good course. I wish that it had been organized a little more intuitively- it felt somewhat scattered.

By Mangesh S R

Jul 12, 2020

Was a good course. Gave me insights on various topics. It also introduced me to various aspects in working of a firm.

By Ali H

Oct 7, 2021

It was a great experience, some topics should have been discussed in detail, especially statistics related concepts.

By Eujee A

Jul 27, 2020

Need more in depth information on the IRR, etc if we are going to also present the concepts in mathematical manners.

By Alejandro S

Oct 29, 2016

Good overall. Some of the material was very basic, but it does give a good foundation to build on. I recommend it.

By Piyush G

Apr 26, 2019

Course was explained very well but I didn't get the point of including investment lectures with business metrics.

By Gabriele G

Jul 10, 2017

Nice introduction to business metrics but last week lesson was too hard to understand without business knowledge.

By Russell F

Aug 25, 2016

Informative course, the final case study could be beefed up a bit to make the quantitative material stick better.