MBA 652 Data Analytics
The course is an introduction to Business Analytics. It covers managerial statistical tools in descriptive analytics and predictive analytics, including regression. Other topics covered include forecasting, risk analysis, simulation, and data mining (including Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML)), and decision analysis. This course provides students with the fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in organizations and shows students how to apply basic business analytics tools in a spreadsheet environment, and how to communicate with analytics professionals to effectively use and interpret analytic models and results for making better business decision. Emphasis is placed on applications, concepts, and interpretation of results, rather than theory and calculations. In addition to Excel (Add-in), students use a computer software package (Stata) for data analysis.
Prerequisite
6 Core Courses 18 CHs