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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Business Analytics Executive Overview by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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    About the Course

    Businesses run on data, and data offers little value without analytics. The ability to process data to make predictions about the behavior of
    individuals or markets, to diagnose systems or situations, or to prescribe actions for people or processes drives business today. Increasingly
    many businesses are striving to become “data-driven”, proactively relying more on cold hard information and sophisticated algorithms than
    upon the gut instinct or slow reactions of humans. This course will focus on understanding key analytics concepts and the breadth of analytic
    possibilities. Together, the class will explore dozens of real-world analytics problems and solutions across most major industri...
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    Jul 24, 2021

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    Great business Analytics I learned from this course

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    Nov 1, 2020

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    I thoroughly enjoyed the course. It has given me sufficient insights to move forward to the data science and analytics fields. The real-world examples are on point for each lesson.

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    By Amit K

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    May 28, 2019

    Good course. This is not a course about technical skills but as a manager or part of senior management team, it will help to understand the foundation, objective, implementation and challenges of business analytics in organisations.

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    May 16, 2020

    knowledgeable and a lot of insight towards the role of analytics in the business world and in a nations economy and its different elements.

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    Nov 18, 2019

    The contents are simple to follow and understand. I have gained lot of knowledge from this course. It is worth your time and money.

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    May 28, 2019

    A very helpful overview of business analytics; the past, the present and what could be expected in the future.

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    Nov 2, 2020

    I thoroughly enjoyed the course. It has given me sufficient insights to move forward to the data science and analytics fields. The real-world examples are on point for each lesson.

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    By Interna K

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    Aug 8, 2019

    Excellent course, very practical and gives students new ideas by highlighting what other companies are doing.

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    By Jay K

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    May 1, 2019

    Great introduction course for Business Analytics for any level of experienced professionals or students.

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    By Kristen S

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    Apr 21, 2019

    Challenging and packed with good information!

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    Oct 8, 2019

    This class is like an overview of the whole industry about data scientist, not technical at all, but a glimpse of the landscape.

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    Jan 3, 2022

    Great content and timely/useful overview of the application of Analytics in the current business environment. I learned a decent amount about the applications in different industries that I wouldn't have been exposed to otherwise.

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    Dec 24, 2019

    Course generally explains well analytics positions and organization structures. Also captures different strategies and procedures of business analytics applied by organization. I found course very helpful but mentor speaks

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    By MALAVIKA D P

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    Jun 11, 2023

    It was new experience for me to learn something completely out of the box. The tutor helped me a lot in completing the assignments and quizes through his extended lecture videos.

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    By Juan M F

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    Feb 23, 2021

    In simple words: Fantastic approach to data driven companies. Let us get rid of gut based decisions. Your company will benefit from it. Remember competitors never sleep.

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    By Erik M

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    Jun 20, 2019

    Definetly a source for present day information and upcoming trends in analytics. This professor definetly can offer a new comers guide to data analytics.

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    By Victor R R

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    Mar 7, 2020

    Short and specific course about data analytics. You can have a good overview about data usage and some business applications and perpectives.

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    By Tse-yu L

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    Oct 6, 2019

    Definitely an clear approach to understand what are the progress of business analytics in the past, present and future!!

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    By Yash S

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    Jun 26, 2020

    Perfect course for getting an Overview, Current Trends and Implementation of Data Analytics practice in Organization.

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    By Cecilia J

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    Mar 15, 2021

    For a person who does not have much knowledge about Data Analytics, it was very well explained and presented.

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    By Vandana S

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    Jul 24, 2020

    It is really easy to learn and helped me to understand the subject very well

    Thank you

    Best Regards

    Vandana

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    By Michael s

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    Mar 19, 2021

    This course provided very practical and current information that could be applied to many workspaces.

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    By Jonathan D A P

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    Jul 3, 2020

    An excellent opportunity to know more about Data Science applications in Business.

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    By Raymond Y

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    May 26, 2019

    over all is great, but i personal like the experience sharing part, thank you.

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    By Awosanya F E

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    Jun 26, 2020

    Good course that gives knowledge about key positions in an organization.

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    By Abdullah M H

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    Jul 24, 2021

    Great business Analytics I learned from this course

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    By Suman D

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    Apr 20, 2019

    Great Course and Professor, You are the best!

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