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Overview

Duration

6 weeks

Total fee

11,044

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

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Business Analytics Using Forecasting
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Highlights

  • Duration 6 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Business Analytics Using Forecasting
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Course details

More about this course
  • Organisations currently collect a vast quantity of data about suppliers, clients, employees, citizens, transactions, and much more. However, many are unaware of the predictive power this "big data" has if analyzed correctly.
  • On this course, you'll learn about forecasting using big data, exploring how it's used by business as an important component of decision making.
  • You'll examine how to define a forecasting task and workflow. You'll understand how to evaluate forecasting performance, analyzing different forecasting methods. Ultimately, you'll be able to implement your own practical forecasting process.

Business Analytics Using Forecasting
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Curriculum

Approaching forecasting

Introduction

Forecasting applications

Forecasting language & notation

Exploring time series data

Software

Data visualization

Data at time of prediction

Performance evaluation

Data partitioning

Naïve forecasts

Performance charts and metrics

Practical performance

Smoothing-based methods

Moving average

Differencing

Exponential smoothing

PIs, automation, and big data

Regression-based methods: Part 1

Regression for forecasting

Regression trend models

Regression trend and seasonality models

Regression-based methods: Part 2

Autocorrelation

AR and ARIMA Models

Forecasting and Big Data

Including external information

Conclusion

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