The course provides techniques that enable forecasters to come up with good forecasts in a short period of time and reporting those results to their stakeholders. Besides, this course also equips students with advanced quantitative techniques to analyze databases in economics and business. Especially, students are not only rigorously taught fundamental knowledge but also introduced realistic situations and guided on practice using popular software such as Eviews, IBM SPSS Statistics, Stata, R. Additionally, the course also help students get acquainted with Input-Output models, methods of impact evaluation such as propensity score matching (PSM), difference in difference (DID). Through this course, students can acquire necessary knowledge and skills to analyze data and make forecasts, which considerably help to formulate policies, strategies, plans and make decisions.