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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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AP

Jun 15, 2019

Very clear and articulate explanation of the concepts. He doesn't skip a step in the sequencing ideas, drawing comparisons and differences, and illustrating both visually and story-telling. Excellent.

SS

Nov 30, 2020

for the beginer like me i have experience in banking of 8 years still for me this fundamentals are new specially quantitative modelling.Kindly provide banking related examples in here too.

thanks

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By Akashjyoti S M

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Apr 17, 2020

Nice course. Great content for a 4 week course. Wish we could get more practice with it. Nonetheless a fantastic beginner level analytics course for sure!

By Adrián J M S

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Feb 10, 2019

In my opinion a more detailed and more real market cases for this would be great, however is a great start for knowin business modelling in todays world

By Camilla O

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Mar 8, 2016

Classes had clear explanations and practical examples. I wish we had dug a little deeper in the themes, but I understand this is a fundamentals' course.

By Andres M

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Nov 12, 2019

I would like the examples to be more diverse based on the reality of the financial departments and the situations we have as professionals every day.

By Anurag P

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Sep 5, 2016

A very very basic course , i will suggest using it as a refresher rather than anything else .

It is however very easy to pass and get a certificate .

By Raphael R C d R C

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Mar 21, 2019

Course is good. I think it should contain spread sheets with linear and multiple regression to allow the student to practice with a real case model.

By Sougata A

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Jul 26, 2023

The teacher is perfect for this particular subject. The only thing I would like to see change is more simplistic way for non mathematical students.

By David V

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Apr 2, 2022

Fuemuy interesante el alcance del curso. Sin embargo siento que se debe buscar forma de que se apliquen los conceptos. Los más esenciales al menos/

By Luca C

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Mar 24, 2023

I am kind of new to these topics, but I would suggest to point out in a clearer way what are the main aspects to remember about the main concepts

By Wellington C

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Aug 9, 2020

The lecturer was very clear and concise in explaining concepts, and the examples and illustrations used were very suitable. I enjoyed the course.

By Xiaomeng H

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May 30, 2020

Very clear explanation of the concepts and provides practical examples. The course is easy to follow. But the Quiz is a little bit too easy...

By Ben K

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May 20, 2018

Very well done. Easy to follow and covered a good amount of material. Would have preferred a little more of the math behind some of the models.

By Nicholas M d A M S

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Apr 18, 2019

É bastante didático, mas senti a falta de alguns detalhes tais como o passo a passo de como é realizado o cálculo em um software, por exemplo.

By Georgios T

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Jan 14, 2018

A great course that provides all the key introductory elements that are needed in order to acquire basic quantitative skills and perspective.

By Patricia N

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Jun 24, 2022

This course helped me better understand what was being taught in Economics and it was practical with the examples given easy to understand.

By Sinan K

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Aug 24, 2020

unnecessarily complicated use of phrases. Very easy, uses Highschool math to get youself fresh again in the related topics. Would recommend.

By Aanavi S

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May 7, 2020

The interface is not that great. Leaving a video at a particular time must continue from that exact point to make it easier for the learner.

By Andres O

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Aug 13, 2017

I like the pace of this course . Thank you Prof Waterman for taking complex concepts and presenting them in a easy to understand format.

By Jason M

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Feb 17, 2016

This course gives us very fundamental idea of quantitative modeling but advanced modeling and/or tools. It's good for entre level students.

By Rishabh G

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Jun 15, 2017

It would have been easier to solve practical quiz questions if the module included some information on how to actually solve the problems.

By Reid R

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Feb 4, 2020

I really enjoy this class, however, when I pass the quiz, I'd like to know what the correct answers were on the questions that I missed.

By Ankit P

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Jan 13, 2019

It's a basic entry level course that briefs about important functions and distributions and methodologies used in quantitative modeling.

By Malgorzata U

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Jun 25, 2018

Material interesting, outlined and structured in good flow. Still need to investigate topic and deep dive to be able to use seamlessly.

By Prateek S

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Nov 19, 2018

Amazing Course. One suggestions: Quizzes can be more frequent in order to ins-till practise and improve retention amongst the students

By Yok H C

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Feb 18, 2023

A good primer, but I wished that the more details was provided on certain techniques (e.g, Markov Chains, Multiple Regressions, ect.)