Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: IS 6482 OR IS 6489 AND Admitted to MS Business Analytics program
Description
Business Analytics is a strategic asset that offers unique opportunities for competitive advantage. It lives at the crossroads of business and technology. As technologies transform the marketplace, companies across the globe are collecting an enormous amount of data that can be used to predict the consequences of alternative courses of action and guide decision-making. The objective of this course is to i) demystify the world of big data analytics and ii) show applications of analytic tools across everyday business decisions. Some of the topics discussed will be applications of supervised, unsupervised machine learning, outlier analysis, and adaptive learning.