Business Analytics and Data Science

Catalog description

The goal of this course is for students to cultivate analytical and technical skills that enable them to extract meaning from large amounts of data. Students will think about how to use data to address different types of business problems and will employ techniques from analytics and data science to harvest and mine data, identify patterns, create predictive models, and put forth data-driven recommendations. Students need to have proficiency in Excel and basic statistics, and will be expected to learn and use R as a data manipulation tool.