Courses
GFQR1046 Demystifying Data-Driven Strategies and Policies with Excel (3 units)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
The course aims at unveiling the mask of data science using the simplest computing tool—Excel. Starting with a few well-known business and government cases, students will learn how data scientists identify patterns in data to build smart cities and make recommendations to their customers that finally turn into business value. The objective of this course is to build a bridge between non-tech people and data scientists by introducing how the data scientists identify real world problems in the specific areas of finance, healthcare, human resources, marketing, and government operations that can be solved by data; how they build a recommendation system to predict what their customers want; and how they inform strategic decisions using data visualization tools. This course also motivates students without programming and mathematical background to learn data science using Excel, and emphasizes on drawing insights from data analysis and delivering the message to the audience effectively.