Introduction to Data Analytics Certificate Program

In an age of information overload, data is everywhere. To solve complex problems, the key is focusing on the right data and applying the right tools to analyze it.

The Caltech five-day Introduction to Data Analytics Certificate Program will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to better understand your customers and your processes. With descriptive and predictive analytics, you will be able to uncover patterns and trends in your data—whether it relates to finance, service delivery, or marketing—and quantitatively make successful business decisions.

This accelerated, hands-on program goes beyond lessons and case studies. With the customized coaching of experts chosen for their extensive industry experience, you will tackle the challenges you face today. Harness innovative tools and techniques that enable you to go from complex problems to solutions with immediate and long-term benefits. Applications include business intelligence, data mining and warehousing, service delivery, product development, marketing, and process improvement.

Benefits

You will learn how to:

• Identify practical opportunities to apply data mining and predictive analytics to improve business operations and systems engineering
• Collect and organize data from varied and disparate sources
• Identify and evaluate potential drivers of business effectiveness and systems optimization
• Use state-of-the-art tools and methods to extract meaning out of existing data
• Define actionable plans to increase sales, reduce costs, improve customer relations, and avoid or mitigate business risk
• Develop, verify, and validate models for business and industry processes
• Make confident strategic decisions in the face of uncertainty
• Use data to optimize service delivery and product development
• Avoid the bottlenecks, pitfalls, and time-wasters inherent in working with big data

Who should attend

This program is for professionals seeking to optimize performance in high-tech companies. Applications include business intelligence, data mining/warehousing, service delivery, product development, marketing, and process improvement.

Schedule

This program is not currently being scheduled.  Please subscribe below to recieve information on upcoming programs.

Classes are held Saturdays, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, normally on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California. Because of restrictions against on-campus meetings, all classes will be online for the foreseeable future (through 2021). During the week before each session, you will receive an online meeting invitation.

Fee: $2850 for the 5-day program. Payment is due (or credit card charged) on the Friday prior to first day of the course. You may pay the entire program fee of $2850 in one payment, or you may pay the program fee in five increments of $570 corresponding to each of the 5 class days.

Hours and Credits: Participants will earn 4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Instructors

Rick Hefner, PhD; Carol Jacoby, PhD; Kenneth Preston, DBA