Foundations of Business Analytics

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Thomas LeBlanc

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1. Course Overview

1. Course Overview.mp4

01:59

2. Demonstrate Understanding of the Importance of Business Analytics

1. Overview of Business Analytics.mp4

03:17

2. Business Intelligence versus Business Analytics.mp4

03:51

3. Demo - Visualizing Business Analytics.mp4

02:52

3. Identify and Analyze Different Types of Business Analytics

1. Types of Business Analytics.mp4

02:15

2. Diagnostic Analytics.mp4

02:00

3. Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics.mp4

02:23

4. Demo - Descriptive Analytics.mp4

02:17

4. Apply Knowledge of Different Applications of Business Analytics

1. Applications and Tools.mp4

02:15

2. Statistical Applications.mp4

01:12

3. Business Applications and Modeling Tools.mp4

04:23

4. Models and Visualization Tools.mp4

02:11

5. Analyze and Propose Strategies

1. Identify and Describe Requirements.mp4

02:25

2. Analyze and Evaluate Data.mp4

04:48

3. Proposals and Recommendations.mp4

02:44

6. Demonstrate Understanding of Different Data Types

1. Data Structures.mp4

04:05

2. Data Sources.mp4

01:44

3. Data Storage.mp4

02:23

4. Demo - Semi-structured and Structured Data.mp4

02:24

7. Apply Data Quality Assessment Techniques

1. Data Quality Importance.mp4

01:58

2. Data Profiling.mp4

01:55

3. Demo - Data Profiling.mp4

02:14

4. Assessment Implementation.mp4

01:53

5. Demo - Transformations.mp4

01:26

6. Summary.mp4

01:35

Description

This course will be an introduction to business analytics by discussing the foundation through real-world use cases.

What You'll Learn?

Being able to turn raw data into useful insights is the very purpose of business analytics. In the course, Foundations of Business Analytics, you’ll gain the ability to understand the type of analytics - descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive. First, you’ll explore the importance of using business analytics to solve business problems while understanding its limitations. Next, you’ll discover the tools available for analytics including applications, statistical packages, as well as programming languages. Finally, you’ll dive into the quality challenges while profiling, cleansing, and validating the data. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of business analytics needed to determine actionable insights and decision-making at your organization.

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Thomas LeBlanc (Microsoft Data Platform MVP) is a Data Enthusiast in Baton Rouge, La. He started his IT career as a COBOL programmer in 1989 while at LSU. Since then he has spent years as a developer, DBA and Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Architect. Community involve includes the local SQL Server and Analytics User Groups as well as SQLSaturday. Speaking engagements have been a blessing at SQL Pass Summit, Live 360, VSLive and IT Dev Connections.

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