This course is designed to provide students with a foundation in statistical analysis and training in statistical software commonly used in the business world. This course will provide training in applied econometrics as students will learn about regression analysis, which is central to social science, business analytics, and machine learning. The training will build students' expertise in Excel, Tableau, and Stata. Students will use these tools while they build skills in data collection, data cleaning, and data analysis. In addition to this technical skill-building, this course will emphasize developing students' data visualization and business communication skills - central to many jobs - with skill-building sessions and exercises addressing how to (a) build effective graphs, dashboards, and presentations and (b) write effective business reports.
After this course, students will be able to create graphs like ...