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Imperial Business Analytics: From Data To Decisions
Imperial Business Analytics: From Data To Decisions
Imperial Business Analytics: From Data To Decisions
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As part of Imperial College London, a global Our thought leadership is sought by governments,
leader in science and technology, Imperial policy-makers and global business leaders, who
College Business School drives global business often partner with us on research projects. We
and social transformation through the fusion of consistently rank among the top business schools
business, technology and an entrepreneurial in Europe and worldwide. We attract brilliant
mindset. minds and provide the environment to foster
innovative and entrepreneurial thinking, resulting
We combine innovative thinking and insight with in ground-breaking ideas that unlock business
new technology to develop solutions to real world opportunities.
issues, benefiting business and improving
society.
Our programmes are The Learning Team are Our bespoke learning Our transformational
crafted via rigorous constantly available to framework consistently learning experience is
planning and assist and support encourages group a result of engaging,
interrogation by our participants learning through stimulating and diverse
academics and throughout the community learning media which
pedagogy experts. learning experience. engagement and high fosters real time
touch social feedback and
interactions. interaction.
The Digital Certificates Our participants never Whilst structured, the Our learning design is
earned through our feel alone in their learning experience is multi-dimensional and
online programmes are learning experience. flexible enough for highly interactive.
exactly equal to the The platform is built partcipants to fit their There is a continuous
hard work and around a deeply studies around their focus on pedagogical
dedication it takes to interactive peer busy lives. variety and live content.
earn the campus connected
equivalent. environment.
Real
No compromise. Our online programmes offer the
absolute equivalent of our campus-based
programmes. They adopt the same rigorous
academic standards, are delivered via our
world-leading faculty and offer a comparable
high-touch approach to the classroom experience.
2
in online MBA ranking
Gold
award for Virtual Reality/
QS Online MBA Augmented Reality at the
Rankings, 2020 2019 QS Reimagine
World Education Conference
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fully online degree
Silver
award for Business Education
programmes at Imperial at the 2018 QS Reimagine
College Business School Education Conference
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online programmes
Bronze
award for Best Distributed/
from Imperial College Online Program for Nurturing
Business School 21st Century skills at the 2019
QS Reimagine Education
Conference
The Dyson School of Design Engineering Centre for Global Finance and Technology
Opened in 2014 to fuse together design thinking, Imperial College Business School’s hub for the
engineering knowledge and practice, to foster a interdisciplinary research needed to innovate,
culture of innovation and enterprise, and to help reveal insights and answer questions; bringing
solve global problems with emphasis on together the activities of academics, start-ups,
sustainability, entrepreneurship and societal established industry and governmental
impact. organisations to understand of the impact of
technology on finance, business and society.
The Data Science Institute (DSI)
The cross-faculty DSI acts as a focal point for Institute of Global Health Innovation
coordinating data science research at Imperial Co-creating and diffusing healthcare innovations
College London by engaging with global partners, to tackle some of the most pressing global
stimulating collaboration across a broad spectrum challenges facing people today. The Institute is a
of disciplines, translating research into social and powerful engine which collaborates with a rich
economic impact as well as offering an advanced network of internal and external partners from
education programme to train a new generation of academia, industry, government and the charitable
data scientists. sector.
The Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis The Energy Futures Lab
The Centre serves as a bridge between Imperial Founded in 2005 to develop multidisciplinary
College Business School, disciplines including collaborations that tackle the broad range of
engineering and computational finance and the energy challenges that the world faces. The
world of business, to develop a greater Energy Futures Lab enhances impact in the
understanding and more efficient management of themes of Policy and Innovation, Energy
risk, and to promote investment and productivity. Infrastructure, Sustainable Power, Low Carbon
Cities and Transport and Clean Fossil Fuels.
Drawing upon decades of research and teaching experience in this field, Dr Alex Ribeiro-Castro and
Professor Wolfram Wiesemann guide you through the fields of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive
analytics, with an emphasis on real-life applicability and frequent reference to business problems from a
range of different sectors.
Recognise Recommend
patterns in data using solutions for real-world
clustering techniques business problems using
analytical techniques
Understand Identify
your data using problems which can be
descriptive analytics solved using data
Draw Detect
insights and make and identify correlation
predictions from data, between features of a
using predictive machine dataset using classification
learning techniques and regression trees
Assess Evaluate
the feasibility and practical the power and limitations
implications of quantitative of analytics in decision
decisions, as well as their making
strengths and weaknesses
Differentiate Suggest
between optimal and problems and data sets that
sub-optimal solutions for are optimally solved by
real-world business problems support vector machines
With over five years of consultancy experience, Wolfram’s research interests revolve around the
Dr Ribeiro-Castro has made contributions in methodological aspects of decision-making under
various industries, including machine learning uncertainty and machine learning, as well as
and optimisation problems in FinTech, health, applications in operations management, energy
energy, and more recently in retail. Some of his and finance.
most recent industry partners include KPMG,
Quantum Black/McKinsey, Ion Trading (finance),
Ovo Energy/Kaluza (energy), DoctorLink (health)
and more recently Otravo BV (retail). He is
currently working as a technical adviser for a
pioneering data science project in maritime
insurance.
Throughout this four-month programme, you will discover the fundamental methods and frameworks to
help you make sense of your data and use it to make informed business decisions.
No coding experience is required and you will take two primer modules that will give you an overview of
mathematics, statistics and Python and help you in understanding the technical aspects of the
programme.
Facebook Microsoft
Open-sourcing Torchnet to Using and sharing a deep
accelerate AI research. learning toolkit to increase
advances in AI.
The first week is orientation week. During this In other weeks, you have learning goals set for the
week you will be introduced to the other week, including watching the video lectures and
participants in the class from across the world. completing the assignments. All assignments
You will learn how to use the learning have weekly deadlines.
management system and other learning tools
provided.
The recorded video lectures are conducted by Throughout the programme, there are live
programme faculty. These dynamic lectures are webinars conducted by programme faculty.
designed to be high impact and reinforce Webinars are usually conducted between 1 pm
learning. and 3 pm UTC on Tuesdays or Wednesdays.
Activities like discussions and polls make the A Learning Team will provide ongoing
programme highly interactive and allow you to personalised support and check on your progress
share your perspectives with participants from throughout the programme, including if you are
around the world. unable to submit assignments on time.
Programme details
17 November 2020
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