University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Accounting Data Analytics Specialization
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Accounting Data Analytics Specialization

Develop Data Analytics Skills for Accountants. This specialization develops students’ skills of data preparation, data visualization, data analysis, data interpretation, and machine learning algorithms and their applications to real-world problems.

Linden Lu
Ronald Guymon

Instructors: Linden Lu

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Specialization - 3 course series

What you'll learn

  • Articulate the benefits of using Big Data and analytics in the modern accounting profession.

  • Describe and implement a framework for using Big data to help provide insights that lead to action.

  • Critique the ability of a dataset to answer questions, then assemble data from different sources for summarization, visualization, and analysis.

  • Use Excel, Tableau, and Visual Basic for Applications to design and perform basic and advanced analyses.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Excel Macros
Category: Tableau Software
Category: Accounting
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Unstructured Data
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Analytical Skills
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Architecture
Category: Financial Data
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Predictive Analytics
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts

What you'll learn

  • Know how to operate software that will help you create and run Python code.

  • Execute Python code for wrangling data from different structures into a Pandas dataframe structure.

  • Run and interpret fundamental data analytic tasks in Python including descriptive statistics, data visualizations, and regression.

  • Use relational databases and know how to manipulate such databases directly through the command line, and indirectly through a Python script.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Python Programming
Category: Pandas (Python Package)
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Data Structures
Category: Jupyter
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Descriptive Statistics
Category: Matplotlib
Category: NumPy
Category: Relational Databases
Category: SQL
Category: Seaborn
Category: Analytics
Category: Accounting
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Database Management
Category: Data Analysis

What you'll learn

  • The concept of various machine learning algorithms.

  • How to apply machine learning models on datasets with Python in Jupyter Notebook.

  • How to evaluate machine learning models.

  • How to optimize machine learning models.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Python Programming
Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Supervised Learning
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Unsupervised Learning
Category: Text Mining
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Data Processing
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Statistical Analysis

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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.Âą

 

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Linden Lu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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