Business Analytics Foundations
Business Analytics Foundations
Prereq: AD100 Pre-Analytics Laboratory and ADR100 Introduction to R
This course presents fundamental knowledge and skills for applying business analytics to managerial decision-making in corporate environments. Topics include descriptive analytics (techniques for categorizing, characterizing, consolidating, and classifying data for conversion into useful information for the purposes of understanding and analyzing business performance), predictive analytics (techniques for detection of hidden patterns in large quantities of data to segment and group data into coherent sets in order to predict behavior and trends), prescriptive analytics (techniques for identification of best alternatives for maximizing or minimizing business objectives). Students will learn how to use data effectively to drive rapid, precise, and profitable analytics-based decisions. The framework of using interlinked data inputs, analytics models, and decision-support tools will be applied within a proprietary business analytics shell and demonstrated with examples from different functional areas of the enterprise. R, SQL, and Power BI software are used in this course.
2025FALLMETAD571A2, Sep 2nd to Dec 10th 2025
| Days | Start | End | Type | Bldg | Room |
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| M | 06:00 PM | 08:45 PM | CAS | 324 |
2025FALLMETAD571A3, Sep 2nd to Dec 10th 2025
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| T | 12:30 PM | 03:15 PM | STH | 113 |
2025FALLMETAD571A5, Sep 2nd to Dec 10th 2025
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| W | 02:30 PM | 05:15 PM | CDS | 262 |
2025FALLMETAD571A7, Sep 2nd to Dec 10th 2025
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| R | 06:00 PM | 08:45 PM | PSY | B53 |
2025FALLMETAD571O1, Sep 2nd to Oct 20th 2025
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| ARR | 12:00 AM | 12:00 AM |