Data Analysis for Business: Foundations
SDA Bocconi School of Management
Every day business managers have to make decisions. In this course you will learn procedures and methods that can help make better decisions, based on descriptive statistics and data analysis. Using Statistics you can focus on the methods involved in collecting, presenting and summarizing a set of data and in developing conclusions supported by data and empirical evidence. The course is designed to respond to the needs of a non-specialist audience and also for participants with “non-scientifi...
About this Course
The course provides an overview of data analysis for business: an introduction and review of methods to describe data using tables, charts and summary measures. The course is designed to respond to the needs of a non-specialist audience and also for participants with “non-scientific” backgrounds (humanities and other classical disciplines), who have not been extensively exposed to quantitative methods and basic calculation procedures or, more generally, for people who do not feel comfortable with basic statistical techniques. At the end of this course the participants will be able to manage the most common basic data analysis techniques: descriptive and data visualization to properly analyze categorical and numerical business variables.
What You'll Learn
- Introduction and Data Collection
- Data Visualization (describing data using tables and graphs)
- Summary Statistics (describing data using numerical measures)
- Random Variables and Normal Probability Distribution
- Linear Correlation and Regression Line
Instructors
Renata Trinca Colonel
Associate Professor of Practice di Decision Sciences & Business Analytics