Business Analytics with Excel: Elementary to Advanced

Description

A frontrunner in an information pushed world requires the information of each data-related (statistical) strategies and of acceptable fashions to use that information. This Business Analytics class focuses on the latter: it introduces college students to analytical frameworks used for resolution making although Excel modeling. These embody Linear and Integer Optimization, Resolution Evaluation, and Danger modeling. For every methodology college students are first uncovered to the fundamental mechanics, after which apply the methodology to real-world enterprise issues utilizing Excel.

Emphasis will likely be not on the “how-to” of Excel, however fairly on formulating issues, translating these formulations into helpful fashions, optimizing and/or displaying the fashions, and decoding outcomes. The course will put together managers who’re comfy with translating trade-offs into fashions, understanding the output of the software program, and who’re appreciative of quantitative approaches to resolution making.