University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Business Data Management and Communication Specialization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Business Data Management and Communication Specialization

Discover and discern the value of information. Learners will be able to work with data, obtain valuable information, and gauge its economic utility.

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Unnati Narang
Oktay Urcan
Douglas B. Laney

Instructors: Unnati Narang

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Specialization - 6 course series

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Intermediate level
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2 months at 10 hours a week
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Intermediate level
Some related experience required
2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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Introduction to Business Analytics with R

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  • You will learn how to process data using R and RStudio. You will also explore the interaction between business principles and data analytics.

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Category: Accounting
Category: Big Data
Category: Data Analysis
Category: strategy
Category: Innovation

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  • Appreciate the unique economic, accounting, and legal characteristics of information.

  • Understand and apply methods for conceiving and generating broad-based and transformative business benefits from available information assets.

  • Identify and adapt traditional asset management principles and practices toward the improved management of information assets.

  • Measure information’s various value characteristics to help justify or prove information-related expenditures.

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Category: Accounting
Category: Big Data
Category: Data Analysis
Category: strategy
Category: Innovation

What you'll learn

  • Identify and adapt traditional asset management principles and practices toward the improved management of information assets.

  • Measure information’s various value characteristics to help justify or prove information-related expenditures.

  • Articulate the challenges, pitfalls, and paradoxes regarding information’s role as a something owned and controlled.

  • Lay out new and emerging organizational roles for treating information as an actual business asset.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cash Flow
Category: Financial Accounting
Category: Cash Flow Statement
Category: Financial Statement

Instructors

Unnati Narang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2 Courses60,053 learners
Oktay Urcan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
5 Courses158,912 learners
Douglas B. Laney
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4 Courses27,005 learners

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