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

Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization

Course 120 hours4.8 (442 ratings)

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: Data Visualization Software
Category: Tableau Software
Category: Analytical Skills
Category: Analytics
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Accounting Systems
Category: Specialized Accounting
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Accounting and Finance Software
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Collection
Category: Business Analytics

Accounting Data Analytics with Python

Course 242 hours4.4 (106 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: Pandas (Python Package)
Category: Python Programming
Category: Descriptive Statistics
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: NumPy
Category: Matplotlib
Category: Seaborn
Category: Data Structures
Category: Jupyter
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Relational Databases
Category: SQL
Category: Data Processing
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Accounting
Category: Business Analysis
Category: Databases
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Statistical Machine Learning
Category: Data Modeling

Machine Learning for Accounting with Python

Course 364 hours4.6 (43 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: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Supervised Learning
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Unsupervised Learning
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Pandas (Python Package)
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Text Mining
Category: Data Processing
Category: Jupyter
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Python Programming
Category: Statistical Analysis

Instructors

Linden Lu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 Courses20,149 learners

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