Descriptive Analytics

Catalog description

DA 201W is a four-credit course with lecture and writing components. (DA201W, DA 302W , and DA 401W each carry only one credit of "writing"; completion of all three courses is required to meet the writing requirement.) This course introduces students to the core areas of descriptive analytics, where the main objective is to answer "what happened" in the project. Students will learn how to accurately describe the attributes of data variables available to them for their projects. Students will have the opportunity to work on real-life projects and cases throughout the course. The course will expose students to spreadsheets, scripting languages for analytics, and current statistical software packages. The instructor will emphasize the importance of communicating findings to different constituents throughout this class.