Business Analytics Certificate Program

Organizations are capturing more data than ever. Today’s business managers and leaders must develop a data mindset and strengthen their analytical skills to interpret and communicate data to make data-driven decisions.

FIU Executive Education’s Online Business Analytics Certificate Program will provide you with the tools and knowledge you need to turn abstract data into meaningful information, predict consumer behavior and forecast revenue for any business.

All statistical concepts contained in this course are presented from a business analytics perspective using practical business examples.

Who Will Benefit

Business managers and leaders who need to understand the business applications for analytics, whether for a functional area of practice or for general management. This program is designed for non-technical professionals including:

• Middle to senior management
• Functional leaders and individual contributors of their team
• Consultants
• Entrepreneurs and business owners

Learning Objectives

• Understand models for summarizing, visualizing, and understanding useful information. from historical data.
• Introduce methods for both gaining insights from historical data and predicting possible future outcomes.
• Using spreadsheets for examining data and building decision models.
• Introduce uncertainty into spreadsheet models using Monte Carlo simulation.
• Learn optimization models to help decision makers choose the best decision based on the available data.
• Explore decision analytics approaches for incorporating a decision maker’s views about risk into decision making.
• Use of databases and manipulating data in MS Access.
• Illustrate the use of additional software tools such as R, JMP Pro and Tableau to apply analytic methods.
• Learn statistical concepts that form the foundation for more advanced analytics methods.
• Learn data visualization and data mining not typically taught, but commonly used in current business environments.
• Foundational MS Excel knowledge for analytics applications, then build on this spreadsheet knowledge to present additional topics that are used by many leading organizations in the use of prescriptive analytics to improve decision making.

Prerequisites

This is a non-technical program. No coding background is required.

• Basic Probability and Statistics (including mean, median, mode, population/sample variance, population/sample standard deviation)
• Basic Excel (2010 and later) (including entering and editing data, creating worksheets, sorting, formatting, using basic formulas)

General Information/Custom Programs: FIU Business Executive Education can create custom training programs specific to the needs of your organization. Please connect with us by submitting the inquiry form below or contact us 305.348.4217 or fiuExecEd@fiu.edu.

Program at a Glance

Prerequisites
Basic Probability and Statistics | Basic Excel (2010 and later)

Schedule
Rolling Admissions – Start anytime

Format
Self-paced, fully online