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

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Linden Lu
Ronald Guymon

Instructors: Linden Lu

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Specialization - 3 course series

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4.6

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Intermediate level

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3 months at 10 hours a week
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Specialization - 3 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.6

(162 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

3 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Progress towards a degree

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Specialization - 3 course series

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Predictive Analytics
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Coding
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Data Architecture

Accounting Data Analytics with Python

Course 242 hours4.3 (84 ratings)

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: Data Preparation
Category: Python Programming
Category: Linear Regression
Category: SQL
Category: Data Visualization

Machine Learning for Accounting with Python

Course 364 hours4.6 (39 ratings)

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: Python Programming
Category: Machine Learning Model Evaluation and Optimization
Category: Basic Time Series Analysis
Category: Machine Learning Modeling
Category: Text Analysis

Instructors

Linden Lu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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