Business Statistics and Analysis

Korshub take

Rice University built this beginner specialization around a genuinely useful combination: statistics taught through Excel, the tool most business analysts actually use day to day. More than 104,000 learners have taken it to build data-analysis skills without needing to learn a programming language first.

Who it's for

Business professionals and aspiring analysts who work primarily in spreadsheets and want to move from basic formulas into pivot tables, statistical charts, and defensible data-driven decisions.

Key takeaways

• Building pivot tables, histograms, and scatter plots to explore data
• Importing, cleaning, and manipulating data inside Excel
• Presenting analysis clearly using spreadsheet-native visualization tools

Because it stays inside Excel throughout, the skills are usable at work immediately rather than only in a separate analytics tool.