Data Integration

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Prerequisites: ACCTNG 4435 . This course discusses the theories and techniques for blending unstructured and structured data including Big Data and social media streams with relational databases, data warehouses, spreadsheets, and other sources of data. It provides hands-on experience in integrating data from diverse sources, screening and cleaning it, and producing descriptive and visual summaries in tables, graphs, maps, and text for business intelligence. Students will be introduced to tools that integrate data from different sources and provide input to dashboards for rich visualization and advanced analytics. Students may not receive credit for both ACCTNG 6460 and INFSYS 6860 .