CU’s data warehousing MOOC specialization earns high ratings

The Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Specialization massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered through the University of Colorado Denver Business School and Coursera, an educational technology company, is among the top-rated specializations in the data science category for business.

Courses are taught by professors Michael Mannino and Jahangir Karimi of the Information Systems program in the CU Denver Business School. Together they have more than six decades of experience and teaching in data warehouses and business intelligence.

The specialization comprises five courses and a capstone through which participants evaluate business needs, design a data warehouse, and integrate and visualize data using dashboards and visual analytics.

The designation was determined by individuals who have taken the courses, said Paymon Zarghami, partnership manager at Coursera.

The specialization, which received about 4.5 stars out of 5, has a total of 5,826 course completions across the five courses.