This course provides an introduction to research methods and techniques used in business analytics. You will learn how to develop interesting research questions and investigate them with various statistical models and methods, such as linear regression, cluster analysis, time series forecasting, and panel data analysis. We will focus on the practical application of the methods using Python. 

This course will provide the basics for more advanced machine learning techniques and courses. 

After this course, you should be able to…

•… answer business- and economics-related questions based on real-world data
•… develop interesting research questions and investigate them with empirical models.
•… understand and apply basic statistical concepts.
•… create statistical models and run them in Python.