Big Data Analytics and Vis

Catalog description

This course introduces best practices of data analytics to create a more competitive and profitable organization. Students will learn how Big Data interacts with business, and how to apply data analytic methodologies to create value for an organization. The course includes hands-on applications of sophisticated data-analysis functions and methodologies to real world data sets with cutting edge software and tools. The course also includes business cases of how the leading digital companies embrace big data culture and the use of data analytic techniques to out-compete rivals in their industry and to be more profitable than traditional companies in the global business environments. This course is a capstone course for the Global Business-Business Analytics concentration.