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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling by University of Pennsylvania

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    About the Course

    How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and
    how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand
    the fundamentals of this critical, foundational, business skill. Through a series of short lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, you’ll learn
    the key ideas and process of quantitative modeling so that you can begin to create your own models for your own business or enterprise. By
    the end of this course, you will have seen a variety of practical commonly used quantitative models as well as the building blo...
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    NC

    Jul 30, 2019

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    Very nice course for beginner, the mathematic level is not high (around french baccalaureat) so available to everyone. I enjoyed a lot this course that show how simple math can be used in real life.

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    Nov 8, 2021

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    e​xcellent course teaches you basics in an easy to learn manner. Lots of good information for someone looking to transition into the world of financial analytics or as a refresher of basic concepts.

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    Feb 26, 2017

    I was expecting the course to provide insight on how to use spread sheet and its respective formulae in mathematical modelling.

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    May 11, 2017

    Well put together, however, if you have had a reasonable high school math education, most of the content will be known to you.

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    Jul 23, 2017

    It would have been much more helpful to have practice opportunities besides the exam and exampled. I wanted to try it myself!

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    By Pratik M

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    Sep 4, 2020

    The instructor is good. Course material is very basic. However, it is not for someone having no knowledge of statistics.

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    Mar 22, 2017

    As a guy from Machine Learning field, its models and concepts are so easy and simple for me, so it's lack of challenge.

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    By Yoann D

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    Jan 28, 2019

    More concrete exercises would have helped to anchor some principles. This was mostly a succession of videos and a quiz

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    By Nilesh K S

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    Mar 30, 2020

    This subject is totally numerical based, There should be more focus on numerical instead of theoretical knowledge.

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    By Zack Y

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    Oct 8, 2017

    I felt that there were insufficient examples to help us gain a better understanding of the concepts being taught

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    By Victor

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    Feb 25, 2020

    Many of the fundamentals are not explained. For example in Week 4 it is not explained how to calculate R2 or r

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    By Prannoy K

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    Feb 16, 2016

    Assignments should be evaluated for all users (unpaid ones as well) like it is done for other Wharton courses.

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    By Charles W

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    May 10, 2018

    Perhaps I was expecting too much given the reputation of the institution, but this is a course for beginners.

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    By Pedro B

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    Jun 17, 2017

    Could come a bit deeper in more complex examples at the end of the course. Most of them were too simple.

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    By Mingyu W

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    Feb 1, 2021

    I think this course is too easy for students with Probability and Mathematical Statistics knowledges...

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    By Yuan Z

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    Mar 9, 2019

    General description of the modeling, need further work or pre-understandings for some of the contents.

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    By Johnny V

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    Jul 10, 2016

    Felt a little rudimentary until the last week. I hope the specialization picks up after this point.

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    By Michael S

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    Dec 6, 2017

    Not enough about formulas or real world application. Was hoping to see examples applied in Excel.

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    By Sidney A

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    May 8, 2016

    Nice primer for modeling, but wish there were more workable problems to help hit the point home.

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    By Bharat J

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    Jun 20, 2020

    Too descriptive for a quantitative course. Would've preferred more problem solving exercises.

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    By Eike A H

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    Sep 9, 2019

    -no explanation on errors

    -too theoretical and abstract with lack of examples and own practice

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    By S B

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    Mar 26, 2018

    Could have been more advanced from the perspective of practical use-cases of data modeling.

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    By jyoti v

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    Oct 23, 2018

    The course is a bit too introductory for me. I'm looking for more challenging material.

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    By Kangkang W

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    Oct 16, 2016

    most contents are explicit on ppt, it is sometimes not necessary to view the lectures.

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    By Juan C P

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    Aug 17, 2022

    Ejercicios que requieran de mayor complejidad práctica pueden resultar beneficiosos

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    By Josh R

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    May 16, 2020

    Lots of information, not much opportunity to apply practical usage to the theories

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    By martino g

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    Mar 30, 2020

    Content is good but the teacher is extremely boring. Had to struggle to finish it.

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