Essential MOOC Courses In Business by: Jeff Schmitt on June 25, 2015 | 12,418 Views June 25, 2015 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Statistics for Business I School: Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) Platform: edX Registration Link: Statistics for Business I Start Date: July 7, 2015 (5 Weeks Long) Workload: 5-7 Hours Per Week Shankar Venkatagiri Instructor: Shankar Venkatagiri Credentials: Venkatagiri is an assistant professor of quantitative methods and information systems at the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore). A holder of three master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in mathematics (Georgia Tech), Venkatagiri’s areas of interest include network analysis, cloud computing, software processes and technology mediated learning. Before entering academia, he worked in consulting in the energy, healthcare, and banking sectors. Graded: Students can earn a verified certificate for $25 by completing all course requirements. Description: According to Venkatagiri, data analysts may understand how to run sophisticated statistics software, but they don’t necessarily understand “what’s under the hood.” In this course, students will study “descriptive statistics,” learning how to apply data sets in simulations to solve problems using R software and Excel. In addition, they will learn the following: “Clean[ing] up a dataset and summarize[ing the data using single point measures of centrality and dispersion Classify[ing] variables by scale and aggregate[ing] them with pivot tables Build[ing] an understanding of probability, joint and marginal probability, conditional probability Apply[ing] Bayes Rule to invert probabilities on a decision tree” Review: No reviews. Additional Background: The second part of this course will start in October 2015. It consists of four parts overall. Previous Page Continue ReadingPage 12 of 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19