 Hello everyone, my name is George Wreck, I'm the Director of the Math Resource Center and the Senior Lecturer at Babson College. The real goal for this course is to help anybody in business that would like to know more about what analytics can do for them on the job. While it isn't expressly for that audience, that's really the target audience. So if you are feeling like you're missing out on the conversation because everybody is talking about all these statistical terms and related, this course can help you get down the learning curve fairly quickly. It's not designed to be a technical course, although there are plenty of areas in which technical guidance and instruction are provided, but really the focus is more do you understand what's going on to help those who've been in business for a while, whether you're middle manager or even upper management, and you're just not feeling as comfortable as you feel you should with some of the latest terminology around data analytics. And that's what this course can do for you in a very short period of time. One thing that I've actually learned in talking to some of my former students, a sweet spot in business right now is the person that can be the go-between between the data analytics team and the business operations team. That's where there is a huge, huge shortage. And that's almost where I'm trying to target this course. To help those that are possibly in that position, even though they may not be as qualified as they should, because there's nobody else in the company that can do it. This can help that person a lot. I always try and put a business context behind whatever we're doing. In my undergraduate and graduate teaching, I found that the students learn better when they can see how the tools are applied. Then the math doesn't become so hard. And in point of fact, most of the math in the real world is going to be handled by a computer. So again, it gets back to the point of if you know what you're trying to achieve and you have an idea of what you might want to do, then it'll be much easier for you to work with the technical staff that might be available to accomplish that objective. I don't think there are too many people in a business role that aren't using some kind of spreadsheet. Now they might be able to graph data more effectively to make their point. They might be able to run some analysis. They might be able to build more effective spreadsheets so that they can themselves save time and work more on the business problem, not on the technical aspects of analyzing data. This is a high ROI course, because it doesn't take too many successful implementations of using some of the technique tools and concepts from the course for your workers, the company's workers to become that much more productive, which just saves time and money. Just a different way of looking not only at data, but also what tools they need to do their job better. And I'm hoping that this course will help them get to that point.