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14 hours

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Difficulty level

Intermediate

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  • Requires effort of 3-5 hours per week
  • Learn from expert faculty of Duke University
  • 13% got a pay increase or promotion
  • 29% got a tangible career benefit from this course
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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Get a clear picture of the vital but different roles business analysts, business data analysts, and data scientists each play in various types of companies
  • Know exactly what skills are required to be hired for, and succeed at, these high-demand jobs
  • Be able to use a checklist provided in the course to score any company on how effectively it is embracing big data culture
  • Digital companies like Amazon, Uber and Airbnb are transforming entire industries through their creative use of big data
  • Understand why companies are so disruptive and how they use data-analytics techniques to out-compete traditional companies
More about this course
  • In this course, you will learn best practices for how to use data analytics to make any company more competitive and more profitable. You will be able to recognize the most critical business metrics and distinguish them from mere data.

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Curriculum

Introducing Business Metrics

Metrics Help Us Ask the Right Questions

Distinguishing Revenue, Profitability, and Risk Metrics

Distinguishing Traditional and Dynamic Metrics

Eggera's Roast Coffee Case Study Part 1 - Definitions

Eggera's Roast Coffee Case Study Part 2 - How a Profitable, Growing Company can go Bankrupt

Revenue Metrics - Traditional Enterprise Sales Funnel

Revenue Metrics - Amazon.com as a Leading Example of Use of Dynamic Metrics - Part 1

Revenue Metrics - Amazon.com as a Leading Example of Use of Dynamic Metrics - Part 2

Profitability/Efficiency Metrics: Inventory Management

Profitability/Efficiency Metrics: Hotel Room Occupancy Optimization

Risk Metrics: Leverage and Reputational Risk

Working in the Business Data Analytics Marketplace

Roles and Companies as They Relate to Big Data

The Business Analyst

An Interview with Business Analyst Shambhavi Vashishtha

Distinguishing the Business Data Analyst and Business Analyst Roles

An Interview with Business Data Analyst Tiffany Yu

The Data Scientist

An Interview with Data Scientist Dai Li

The Senior Software Engineer

Overview of 5 Types of Companies as They Relate to Big Data

Traditional Strategic Business Consulting

Bricks-and-Mortar Companies

Barnes and Noble Case Study

Strategic Business Consulting - Focus on Software/IT Systems Integration

Hardware and Software Companies

Digital Companies

Going Deeper into Business Metrics

Web Marketing - Metrics

Web Marketing - AdWord Metrics

Web Marketing - Segmentation

Financial Services Metrics - Money Management and Investing

The Equivalence of Different Returns - The Sharpe Ratio

Four Types of Money Managers and Their Performance Metrics

Venture Capital and Private Equity Investors

Applying Business Metrics to a Business Case Study

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    Learning Experience: The Course is about how the Company operates on daily basis. This include the factors affecting the busniess, how to control these factors and proper management to operate the busniess
    Faculty: Faculty is frank and dictates the subject thoroughly. It inludes practical assignments, quiz and MCQs. The name of the faculty is Daniel Egger Course includes the lectures with graded and ungraded assignments including doubt sessions
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    Other: I got to know about various business metrics involve in business like revenue metrics, profitability metrics and risk metrics. Now I know how to analyze and make business decisions on basis of these metrics and KPI.
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