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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....

Top reviews

DP

Nov 9, 2021

e​xcellent course teaches you basics in an easy to learn manner. Lots of good information for someone looking to transition into the world of financial analytics or as a refresher of basic concepts.

NC

Jul 31, 2019

Very nice course for beginner, the mathematic level is not high (around french baccalaureat) so available to everyone. I enjoyed a lot this course that show how simple math can be used in real life.

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By 樊荣

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May 4, 2019

Too elementary

By Sphelele

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Mar 10, 2019

a great course

By Charles b

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Jul 12, 2016

GREAT MATERIAL

By Nisheeth N

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Dec 25, 2019

Great Course!

By Sajjad H S

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Jun 24, 2020

Good course.

By Divyam A

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Apr 12, 2020

Basic Course

By Hongbo Q

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Jul 12, 2018

有一点简单，很基础的课程

By Shivani J

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Dec 4, 2016

great course

By nicholas m

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Oct 12, 2016

Great course

By Deleted A

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May 28, 2019

really good

By Alex B

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May 26, 2016

Good review

By Narek

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Mar 20, 2016

Good course

By Daniel P d R E

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Jul 16, 2020

Too simple

By Quantum P

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Nov 3, 2019

Too simple

By Sagar A

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Apr 26, 2018

too simple

By Ishan A

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Sep 11, 2018

excellent

By Wenwen B

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Apr 28, 2020

Not bad

By Luis E H A

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Mar 10, 2017

Great

By Sylvia S

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Sep 18, 2020

good

By Shrenik V Z

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Jan 8, 2018

Good

By Nikita R

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Oct 29, 2021

NA

By pravar n

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Jul 18, 2022

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By mahee r

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Aug 27, 2017

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By John C

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Apr 30, 2018

I liked Professor Waterman; he is clear, gives examples, and doesn't just drone over the slides like my statistics professor did in college. However, the course itself felt a little too simplified. For example, when I arrived at the topic of multiple regression, concepts like collinearity and omitted variable bias, which are crucial to understand the fitness of your model, were not mentioned. This was a bit concerning because most business operations, I would assume, have multiple variables in play and would seem more practical to have a more in-depth focus on models reflecting that characteristic.