Data Visualization and Business Analytics

November 20 2019

Course: COMM414
Audience: BCOMM Students

Learning Objectives

  • Understand basic business analytics terminologies.
  • Know real-world business analytics examples across multiple industries.
  • Be able to perform terabyte-size (1 000 000 megabytes) data queries and aggregations with Google BigQuery.
  • Be able to create effective data visualizations with Tableau.
  • Be able to build and estimate regression and basic machine learning models, and perform data simulations and optimizations with R.
  • Generate business insights from business analytics outcomes.

Key Modules

  • Business Analytics Overview
  • Data Economics
  • Numbers and Insights
  • BigQuery & SQL Basics
  • Descriptive Analytics
    • Summary Statistics
    • Dimensions and Segmentation
    • Time Series and Trends
    • Spatial Data
  • Predictive Analytics
    • Introduction
    • Regression
    • Logistic Regression
    • Machine Learning
  • Prescriptive Analytics
    • Introduction
    • Simulation
    • Optimization
  • Industry Applications

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