BUS 362 Spreadsheet Technology
This course covers basic principles and techniques of descriptive and predictive analytics in Excel. What are the essential data analysis concepts underlying business analytics? Topics include descriptive statistics, data visualization, probability, modeling uncertainty, sampling, estimation and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression analysis, time-series analysis, and forecasting all using an Excel spreadsheet. Emphasizes an understanding of how these tools can support decision-making and analytics initiatives in a business context with real-world examples and case studies. Uses Microsoft Excel for analyzing data sets and creating visualizations.