Prescriptive Analytics

Catalog description

DA 401W is a four-credit course with lecture and writing components. (DA201W, DA 302W , and DA 401W each carry only 1 credit of "writing"; all three courses must be taken to meet the writing requirement). This course will introduce students to how data analytics assists in making decisions and advocating for a course of action. The core objective of this course is to help students develop a set of viable decision options (based on considerations including costs and benefits, key stakeholder preferences, ethical guidelines, etc.), ranking those decision options to create alternative courses of action, and how to achieve an optimal decision. Topics covered will include optimization, sensitivity analysis, decision making, linear programming, and simulation.