Descr Analyt and Visualization

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This course will develop the student's ability to organize, analyze, and interpret quantitative business and economic data. It introduces practical and usable methods of gathering and using business data to solve business problems, such as exploratory data analysis, probability concepts, and empirical probability distributions. It includes topics such as graphical data analysis, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and simple forecasting using regression techniques. In order to foster the technological competence so necessary in today's hypercompetitive business environment, analysis of data sets and problem solution using spreadsheet software, statistical analysis tools and graphing software.