MDA 524 Data Driven Management Decision Making

Fall/Spring/Summer

This course provides an overview of business analytics (descriptive, predictive and prescriptive) and introduces some analytical tools using Excel. The course considers analytics from key business perspectives: mangers, analysts, decision-makers, database administrators and a variety of potential audiences. To demonstrate basic tools the class will utilize Excel, focusing on cleaning, organizing, visualizing, analyzing real-world data from a variety of cases. The course also introduces a framework for assessing an organizations capability to deploy, and benefit from, business analytics practices. 3 credit hours