Accounting Data Analytics Specialization

This specialization develops learners’ analytics mindset and knowledge of data analytics tools and techniques. Specifically, this specialization develops learners' analytics skills by first introducing an analytic mindset, data preparation, visualization, and analysis using Excel. Next, this specialization develops learners' skills of using Python for data preparation, data visualization, data analysis, and data interpretation and the ability to apply these skills to issues relevant to accounting. This specialization also develops learners’ skills in machine learning algorithms (using Python), including classification, regression, clustering, text analysis, time series analysis, and model optimization, as well as their ability to apply these machine learning skills to real-world problems.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Know how to operate software that will help you create and run Python code.
• Execute Python code for wrangling data from different structures into a Pandas dataframe structure.
• Run and interpret fundamental data analytic tasks in Python including descriptive statistics, data visualizations, and regression.
• Use relational databases and know how to manipulate such databases directly through the command line, and indirectly through a Python script.