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About the Course

Useful quantitative models help you to make informed decisions both in situations in which the factors affecting your decision are clear, as well as in situations in which some important factors are not clear at all. In this course, you can learn how to create quantitative models to reflect complex realities, and how to include in your model elements of risk and uncertainty. You’ll also learn the methods for creating predictive models for identifying optimal choices; and how those choices change in response to changes in the model’s assumptions. You’ll also learn the basics of the measurement and management of risk. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to build your own models with your own data, so that you can begin making data-informed decisions. You’ll also be prepared for the next course in the Specialization....

Top reviews

JN

Apr 12, 2018

covers good amount of material and exactly what is in the outline, presented with enough detail to follow. Good walk-through of the spreadsheets helps understanding, easy to follow along and practice.

LC

Dec 18, 2016

Material was very well presented. Week 3 was challenging, but taking time to print out the slides, work through them rigorously proved very helpful. I found all sections very, very informative.

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By Emmanuel J A

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Jul 10, 2023

Another outstanding course under Professors Veeraraghavan and Savin! I like how the difficulty of the OM topics and examples increased from the material on Operations Analytics. Would have enjoyed it even better if there were a lot of practice exercises and worked problemsets for students to really have hands-on experience in working with Excel. Learned a lot nonetheless!

By Deleted A

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May 10, 2016

This course is much more informative than the previous two in my opinion. I liked the sample spreadsheets provided. I still however feel the price is a bit steep compared to other similar courses you can find online. The quizzes aren't that challenging and it may be nicer to expand the assignments to practice more.

By Anna D

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Feb 27, 2017

Mostly useful practical advice and examples on how to use Excel to model risks and realities. Week 3 was not very good as it was a quick overview of basic statistics which is incomprehensible if you have no previous knowledge and useless if you do.

By Daniel B

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Aug 7, 2019

This course had a mix of high and lows, professor Savins pieces felt more connected to real life examples to help illustrate the concepts whereas Professor Veeraraghavan felt more like a math class and very disconnected from real world examples.

By Marek N

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Nov 4, 2016

Good practical examples of the concepts. In general, seems to me that the courses of the specializations do not fit together well. At times, basic things mentioned elsewhere are repeated, some others are not explained sufficiently.

By Irina K

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Aug 6, 2018

Only the first lecturer was good. Where are clear excel examples for Week 3, 3.2? You know that students have been complaining over 7-8 months and did nothing! It's a total waste of money.

SERGEY SAVIN is the BEST!!

By Jorge I L

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Dec 29, 2019

I felt that it was very repetitive and lacked many tools for risk analysis. Also, i felt it repeated many things from the previous courses in the specialization, which turned ir very tedious.

By Michal C

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May 7, 2020

All was great, but week 3 has serious issues with linking what is in the lectures and in the quiz. Also the forum is unmoderated and there are over a year old complaints. The rest was great.

By Brendan G

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Oct 17, 2019

I wish after each quiz it would show you how to get the right answer then generate a different question when retaking the quiz. You cannot learn without knowing what you did wrong.

By Viktor G

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Apr 26, 2016

Outdated presentation style: mostly "voice behind text and Excel window" long... long videos.

I'm not questioning the material itself, but I was heavily bored during the course.

By Jordan L

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May 23, 2018

Very difficult to understand the professors, and I would have wished for more demonstration on excel, rather than explanation through slides.

By Mohammad S

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Aug 4, 2020

comparing with the operations analytics with the same instructors it's not as a good as it but at all its nice course

By Jamon F

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Nov 3, 2020

Pretty tough, a lot of information to cover. I like challenging material though. 3 stars because I was challenged

By jeff t

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Dec 31, 2019

Reasonably good. Would like to have seen the week 4 extend into using more modern tools such as R or Python.

By Stanley L W

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Mar 6, 2019

the first two lectures are great, but the last two come a little hurry and not illustrate very well

By Christopher M

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Sep 16, 2022

Too in depth in the background mathematics and not enough focus on the use.

By Brendan C

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Jun 4, 2018

quiz should be unlocked. Some concepts could be explained better.

By Patrick N

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Dec 3, 2021

Lots of info yet lack of reinforcement in readiness for the quiz

By Zijian D

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Dec 2, 2018

The second lecturer only read all the text in lecture slide.

By André I

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Oct 6, 2018

the quizzes are not really helpful/relevant.

By Evan H

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May 21, 2019

Some concepts were hard to follow.

By Cong W

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Feb 17, 2020

The courses can be quicker.....

By Lidia B

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Apr 30, 2023

This course lost my interest

By Joe Z

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May 25, 2017

Slides were not useful.

By Zeming Y

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Jan 12, 2018

okie not that great