Data Analysis for Business (Coursera)

Offered by FIA Business School,
Data Analysis for Business (Coursera)

The Data Science in Business course equips participants with the tools and techniques to leverage data for informed decision-making in the corporate world. Covering data analysis, and data-driven strategies, this course empowers individuals to extract valuable insights, enhance business processes, and drive strategic initiatives through data-driven approaches. Combining theoretical foundations with hands-on applications, learners will be well-prepared to navigate the intersection of data science and business analytics.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see Coursera's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

This course is part of the Data & Finance for the future Specialization.

Syllabus

Introduction to Data Analysis
This week, you’ll learn the impact of data analysis and its elements on business. Also, the diferences of variables, measurement scales and types of data analysis.

Organizing and Visualizing Data
This week, you’ll learn how to tell something through data. Managing data in graphs and tables, and the principals pitfalls about data visualization.

Descriptive measures: univariate and bivariate
This week, you’ll learn how to deal with data and how to describe data in terms of some parameters: the differences between dispersion and central tendcy measures.

Statistical Inference
In this week you will see some probability principles which are linked with datasets and data visualization. Also, statistical principles which are applied in data analysis.

Regression Analysis
In this week you will see topics in linear regressions. Regression analysis is used to investigate the relationship between two or more variables. Often used in predicting some characteristic using one or more independent variables .

Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Julia Scientific Programming (Coursera) Coursera
University of Cape Town

Julia Scientific Programming (Coursera)

This four-module course introduces users to Julia as a first language. Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language developed specifically for scientific computing. This language will be particularly useful for applications in physics, chemistry, astronomy, engineering, data science, bioinformatics and many more.

Nov 9th 2026
4 Weeks
Investment Management in an Evolving and Volatile World by HEC Paris and AXA Investment Managers (Coursera) Coursera
HEC Paris

Investment Management in an Evolving and Volatile World by HEC Paris and AXA Investment Managers (Coursera)

Have you ever wanted to invest in financial markets, but were always afraid that you didn’t have the proper tools or knowledge to make informed decisions? Have you ever wondered how investment management companies operate and what fund managers do? AXA Investment Managers, in partnership with HEC Paris, will introduce you to the most important ideas and concepts in investment management, to help you better understand your financial future.

Nov 9th 2026
4 Weeks
Reproducible Templates for Analysis and Dissemination (Coursera) Coursera
Emory University

Reproducible Templates for Analysis and Dissemination (Coursera)

This course will assist you with recreating work that a previous coworker completed, revisiting a project you abandoned some time ago, or simply reproducing a document with a consistent format and workflow. Incomplete information about how the work was done, where the files are, and which is the most recent version can give rise to many complications.

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Fundamentos de Excel para Negocios (Coursera) Coursera
Universidad Austral

Fundamentos de Excel para Negocios (Coursera)

Cuando finalices este curso habrás logrado un gran número de habilidades como introducir información, ordenarla, manipularla, realizar cálculos de diversa índole (matemáticos, trigonométricos, estadísticos, financieros, ingenieriles, probabilísticos), extraer conclusiones, trabajar con fechas y horas, construir gráficos, imprimir reportes y muchas más.

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Estadística aplicada a los negocios (Coursera) Coursera
Universidad Austral

Estadística aplicada a los negocios (Coursera)

La toma de decisiones está en la esencia de los negocios. Gerenciar es tomar decisiones, muchas veces bajo presión, con información desordenada y en un contexto de incertidumbre. Un aspecto básico es entender y analizar la información, organizar los datos de forma de facilitar su posterior uso y la toma de decisiones.

Nov 9th 2026
4 Weeks
The Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Boards and the Governance Process (Coursera) Coursera
University at Buffalo,The State University of New York

The Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Boards and the Governance Process (Coursera)

The third course in this Specialization introduces you to the factors that influence how effective boards of directors will be in carrying out their roles and responsibilities and hence the impact they have in shaping the success of the organization they govern. While this course has been developed with North American culture in mind, we do appreciate that, in other parts of the world, the nature of the factors that influence the effectiveness of nonprofit boards of directors may vary. Nevertheless,it is our hope that much of the course content will still be of value to those in other parts of the world.

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Subsistence Marketplaces (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Subsistence Marketplaces (Coursera)

The foundation for this course lies with unique synergies between pioneering research, teaching, and social initiatives through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative. Unique to this approach is a bottom-up understanding of the intersection of poverty and the marketplace. The goals of this course are to help you develop an understanding of marketplace activity in the radically different context of subsistence where much of humanity resides and survives, and for you to design solutions that can be implemented by individuals, businesses, and social enterprises through economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable products for subsistence marketplaces.

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Business Statistics and Analysis Capstone (Coursera) Coursera
Rice University

Business Statistics and Analysis Capstone (Coursera)

The Business Statistics and Analysis Capstone is an opportunity to apply various skills developed across the four courses in the specialization to a real life data. The Capstone, in collaboration with an industry partner uses publicly available ‘Housing Data’ to pose various questions typically a client would pose to a data analyst. Your job is to do the relevant statistical analysis and report your findings in response to the questions in a way that anyone can understand.

Nov 9th 2026
4 Weeks
International Business I (Coursera) Coursera
University of New Mexico

International Business I (Coursera)

We live in a world of intensifying global relationships, one in which international business has become the key determinant of economic development and prosperity. This course, Global Business Environment, Part I, introduces students to a fundamental understanding of the socioeconomic political, cultural, and linguistic environment in which international businesses operate.

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks