Hands on Analytics for Young Professionals
offered by IIM Calcutta

Public/Government Institute
Estd. 1961

Hands on Analytics for Young Professionals
at
IIM Calcutta
Overview

Duration	4 days
Total fee	₹1.00 Lakh
Mode of learning	Online
Schedule type	Self paced
Difficulty level	Intermediate
Credential	Certificate
Future job roles	EAI, Ethical Hacking, Business Analyst , Data Engineer , Data Analyst

Hands on Analytics for Young Professionals
at
IIM Calcutta
Highlights

Batch Starts September 23 - 27, 2019
Only Management Institute in India with triple accreditations by AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS.
Rank 23rd globally

Hands on Analytics for Young Professionals
at
IIM Calcutta
Course details

Skills you will learn

Regression Statistics Forecasting

Who should do this course?

Young working professionals without any formal background in analytics but are interested in this subject for their career advancement are encouraged to attend. Participants with quantitative aptitude, preferably those with science, engineering or commerce backgrounds, are best positioned to appreciate the subject. Familiarity with elementary computer tools such as Excel is a must.

What are the course deliverables?

Understand and appreciate the emerging needs for applying statistical and machine learning concepts in decision making
Learn widely used statistical and machine learning methods useful in solving data driven business decision problems in organizations
Use readily available software with appropriate data sets for implementing each of the concepts learnt
Interactive class room learning with lectures and hands-on practice using software

More about this course

Prospects of analytics in modern data driven business world are on the rise, and survival without appropriate use of analytics is getting increasingly difficult in professional organizations. The principles and theories surrounding statistical and machine learning techniques and a plethora of software tools and techniques overwhelm young professionals without a formal training in the subject about where and how to start. Consequently, interest in analytics often remains restricted to wishful thinking and a hand-waiving bouquet of buzzwords. Young professionals with analytical bend of mind willing to get initiated into this fascinating world of analytics need a suitable exposure where they can explore analytics with its associated principles and hands-on implementation to develop a taste for the subject. This is immensely doable with lucid explanation of fundamental principles of analytics and hands-on experimentations with readily available softwares. Such an exposure will contribute to their analytics readiness leading to career progressions in their own or other organizations by thriving on the analytics dimension of problem solving skills.

Hands on Analytics for Young Professionals
at
IIM Calcutta
Curriculum

How to explore relationships and interdependence of variables in decision making: The world of Regression

How data can detect alignment of business decisions with ground reality and trigger need for intervention: Tests of Hypotheses and Analysis of Variance

How statistical models help in business planning for future outcomes: Forecasting techniques

How machines learn from historical data to help take intelligent decisions: The world of supervised learning using

Artificial Neural Networks and other emerging methods

How data driven intelligence can be reconciled with managerial expertise: The tricks of Bayesian belief revision

How machines learn from currently observed data without any history: The world of unsupervised learning techniques