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There are 5 modules in this course
With marketers are poised to be the largest users of data within the organization, there is a need to make sense of the variety of consumer data that the organization collects. Surveys, transaction histories and billing records can all provide insight into consumers’ future behavior, provided that they are interpreted correctly. In Introduction to Marketing Analytics, we introduce the tools that learners will need to convert raw data into marketing insights. The included exercises are conducted using Microsoft Excel, ensuring that learners will have the tools they need to extract information from the data available to them. The course provides learners with exposure to essential tools including exploratory data analysis, as well as regression methods that can be used to investigate the impact of marketing activity on aggregate data (e.g., sales) and on individual-level choice data (e.g., brand choices).
To successfully complete the assignments in this course, you will require Microsoft Excel. If you do not have Excel, you can download a free 30-day trial here: https://products.office.com/en-us/try
In this module, students will be introduced to the instructor, Dr. David Schweidel and get and overview of the course.
What's included
1 video2 readings1 discussion prompt
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1 video•Total 3 minutes
Meet Dr. Schweidel•3 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
Getting Started•10 minutes
A Note About Exercises & Quizzes•10 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 15 minutes
Introduce Yourself•15 minutes
Exploring your Data with Visualization and Descriptive Statistics, Part 1
Module 2•2 hours to complete
Module details
Modules 2 and 3 focus on identifying appropriate descriptive statistics (measures of central tendency and dispersion) for different types of data, as well as recoding data using reference commands to prepare it for analysis. Additionally, you will manipulate and summarize data using pivot tables in Excel, produce visualizations that are appropriate based on the type of data being analyzed, and interpret statistics and visualizations to draw conclusions to address relevant marketing questions.
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4 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
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4 videos•Total 43 minutes
Course Objectives & Example 1: Political Advertising Expenditures•12 minutes
Course Goals & Example 2: Performing Arts Centers•9 minutes
Organizing Data•11 minutes
The Motion Picture Industry•12 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
How Companies Learn Your Secrets•10 minutes
Big Data in the Big Apple•10 minutes
Motion Picture Industry Example Data Set•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 25 minutes
Module 2 Quiz•25 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 15 minutes
Categorical Variables in the Motion Picture Industry•15 minutes
Exploring your Data with Visualization and Descriptive Statistics, Part 2
Module 3•2 hours to complete
Module details
Modules 2 and 3 focus on identifying appropriate descriptive statistics (measures of central tendency and dispersion) for different types of data, as well as recoding data using reference commands to prepare it for analysis. Additionally, you will manipulate and summarize data using pivot tables in Excel, produce visualizations that are appropriate based on the type of data being analyzed, and interpret statistics and visualizations to draw conclusions to address relevant marketing questions.
What's included
5 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
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5 videos•Total 48 minutes
Excel Analysis of Motion Picture Industry Data•13 minutes
Displaying Conditional Distributions•5 minutes
Analyzing Qualitative Variables•4 minutes
Steps in Constructing Histograms•11 minutes
Common Descriptive Statistics for Quantitative Data•15 minutes
3 readings•Total 40 minutes
Giving Viewers What They Want•10 minutes
Why Personalization is Key for Content Marketing•5 minutes
Assignment: Survey Analysis Assignment•25 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Module 3 Quiz•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 15 minutes
Visualizing Data: Technique Review•15 minutes
Regression Analysis for Marketing Data
Module 4•2 hours to complete
Module details
In this module, you will be asked to determine the appropriate type of regression for different types of marketing data and will perform regression analysis to assess the impact of marketing actions on outcomes of interest, such as sales, traffic, and brand choices. You will also be asked to interpret regression output to understand overall model performance and importance of different predictors, as well as make predictions using the appropriate regression model.
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4 videos2 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
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4 videos•Total 41 minutes
Regression-Based Modeling•10 minutes
Introduction to Customer Analytics•10 minutes
Customer Choices Drive Business Decisions•9 minutes
Illustrating Customer Analytics in Excel•11 minutes
2 readings•Total 45 minutes
How to Find Your Most Valuable Customers•20 minutes
This final module will connect the results of regression analysis to marketing decisions. You will learn to build tools that allow users to evaluate outcomes based on different marketing decisions, as well as characterize the extent of uncertainty in outcomes based on the selected marketing decisions.
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Reviewed on Jul 16, 2020
Instructive, sometimes the teachers jumps several steps ahead without evident reason or refers to concepts that he didn't introduce in the course.
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Reviewed on Mar 25, 2020
Very useful. I highly recommend it. Great Excel exercises, many ways to practice it and learn it. Professor Schweidel is remarkable and makes complicated topics clear and easy!
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Reviewed on Jun 8, 2020
A quant driven course. Very well explained with lengthy examples and enough practice material.
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