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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.

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By Kyle A

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Feb 15, 2021

I think it would have been helpful to have more practice in relation to more of the questions that called for solving in the quizzes.

By Linda J

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Sep 28, 2020

Good info, but I wish it incorporated some work in excel to solidify the practice of these models, which is all done in spreadsheets.

By B G

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Jun 26, 2020

More practice and questions would be helpful in solidifying these concepts, especially regarding markov chains and probability trees.

By Wentong L

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Aug 28, 2019

It's a nice course but sometimes is basic and unclear. Hope the lecturer could explain more about why and how to calculate the models

By Daniela C

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Feb 18, 2018

Great course. Some more emphasis on the actual math behind it and how to build the models would have made it better, more applicable.

By Nikhil G

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Aug 18, 2020

Really nice course. Professor explains everything so well. This course was a nice recap of high school and college math and stats.

By Giovanny O S

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Dec 7, 2020

The course is easy to follow and gives many insights about how the models can be made but especially the way they can be analyzed

By abbas s

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Jun 8, 2020

It was really helpful to learn the basic of quantitative Modeling Never thought that we can use so much of it in really practice

By Eduardo R S E

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Aug 24, 2018

A few concepts where not completely clear but as fundamentals the course gave me the ideal mind set to continue my certification.

By Silvio J R G

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Mar 7, 2016

A really good introduction to Quantitative Models. I will personally recommend it for beginners since it wraps up main concepts.

By Dan M

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Jun 9, 2017

Very very informative course, only problem is, the content is kind of dry so it requires a little more dedication than average.

By Bianca F

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Jan 11, 2022

Great course, but It would be nice to have the answers of the questions I got wrong + resolution of each question for review.

By David L C P

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Jul 4, 2020

Buen curso, pero mas que nada para las nociones básicas, no lo recomiendo si ya se tiene manejo de herramientas estadísticas.

By Paul P

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Jun 17, 2020

After getting the results of a test, it would be helpful to get an explanation of questions that a wrong answer was selected.

By Andres O

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Feb 11, 2021

Great introductory course. I'd liked to have examples with spreadsheet modeling to make more practical. But it is very good.

By Thorsten W

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Apr 4, 2018

Good basics, thoroughly developed from one step to the next. Thanks also to the course forum participans for the discussions

By Nqobile T

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May 23, 2020

This course really helps in understanding mathematical functions and gives you a good foundation in quantitative modelling.

By Zhengyi L

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Jun 19, 2018

Very learner-friendly for newbies in financial area. Specifically useful for me in beginning my career in risk model field.

By Richard A

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Oct 14, 2019

Good course, in some places it does jump a few steps so recommend doing some of your own research to cross check concepts.

By Gaëtan

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Feb 11, 2017

A very good introduction about the different models.

The only negative point is that it might be sometimes too theoretical.

By Sanyam S

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Sep 9, 2020

The fundamentals of Quantitative Modelling is an amazing course to improve the basic knowledge in finance specialization.

By YUGANSHU J

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Jun 5, 2017

It was a good course but there should have been some quantitative analysis models at last which could have helped us more

By Ryan W

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Aug 27, 2020

Wealth of information packed into four modules. I would suggest allowing for more interaction for questions post exams.

By Abinash B

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Nov 18, 2019

Indeed the course was insightful and will help to understand the fundamentals. But the explanation could be simplified.

By Gustavo A

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Jul 29, 2017

The course teaches the fundamentals of modelling and it fits the needs of people with no previous knowledge in finance.