Patterns and Trends in Data

Overview

Informed decision making spans the domains of business and research. Understanding the problem in itself can be challenging, so how can you reduce uncertainty and gain enough clarity to make a decision? How can data be analysed to provide the trend, value, insight or nugget of information you need?

Is this right for me?

This course is suitable for anyone willing to expand their knowledge in this area.

Aims and Objectives

This course will provide delegates with the skills necessary to conduct simple analysis, avoiding commonly made mistakes to identify:

• Methods to identify associations between data
• Methods to identify sequences of events/data
• Classification models
• Clustering techniques
• Forecasting

A practical course, learning will encompass manual calculations, case studies based in Excel and tutorial questions. Delegates should be comfortable with basic statistical techniques and data entry in Excel.