This course prepares participants to begin business intelligence projects at their own firm. The focus of the course is a hands-on approach to structuring data including generating new variables based on comparative and relative metrics. The structuring of these variables will be done in Excel, SAS, and Stata to give viewers a sense of familiarity with a variety of different software package structures.

The focus in this course is on financial data though the techniques are also applicable to more general forms of data like that used in marketing or management analyses.

***Please download and open all supporting materials before starting the course videos.***
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Sell price $: 24.00
Course Author: Michael McDonald
Authored on: 2016-06-04 11:10:02 -0700
Course Short Description:

This course covers cleaning databases and structuring them in a way that maximizes accuracy of business intelligence.

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Course Topic: Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI) & Analytics
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No Advanced Preparation or Prerequisites are needed for this course. However, it is recommended to take the other courses in the series prior to completing this one.

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  • Discover how to evaluate data for accuracy using Benford’s Law
  • Explore how to develop ratios and relative metrics to better evaluate data
  • Explore how to develop moving average and other tools to smooth data over time
  • Discover how to create binary variables and decile rankings to evaluate data structure

***Each of the objectives above will be covered in Excel, SAS, and Stata

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