Business data analytics is how companies, nonprofits, and state-owned enterprises use data to understand problems to solve and make better decisions. Business data analytics is applied in organizational operations, marketing, finance, and cross-departmental strategic planning. This course will help students identify, evaluate, and seize business data analytics opportunities to create business value. The course also provides basic data analysis methods such as using data to develop predictive abilities through machine learning, data mining and other prediction methods. In addition, the course also introduces optimization methods to support decision making in the context of many choices and limited resources of enterprises.
This subject is related to previous subjects such as applied statistics in business and management as well as parallel or successor subjects such as Marketing Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management...