BMIS 453 - Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics

3 credits (Hrs: 3 Lec)

Business intelligence and analytics is key to enabling successful competition in today’s world of “big data”. Businesses, governments, and individuals create massive collections of data as a by-product of their activity. Increasingly, decision-makers and systems rely on intelligent technology to analyze data systematically to improve decision-making. This course focuses on helping students understand how to best leverage business intelligence and analytics to make smarter decisions and generate better results for their organizations. Students have an opportunity to apply the concepts, principles, and methods associated with four areas of analytics (text, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive) to real problems in an application domain associated with their area of interest.

Prerequisite(s): STAT 131 or STAT 216