OIM7510 Programming for Business Analytics
3 Credits
This course will introduce fundamental programming concepts including data structures and networked application program interfaces, using three different programming languages: SQL and Python. In addition, you will learn to manage structured data (SQL) and unstructured data (Python) At the end of this course, you will gain the basic understanding of programming and managing data in a data science driven world.
You will also learn:
· Understand multiple definitions of business intelligence and its relationship to analytics
· Understand how companies employ BI to shape strategy, monitor performance, and achieve competitive advantage
· Be able to identify opportunities for using different business analytical skills in a variety of business cases
· Understand database management and data warehousing and become competent in implementing them
· Learn to gather, analyze, summarize and visualize data to solve basic business problems
· Be able to program with SQL and Python
· Understand the challenges of big data and the technologies used to build models on and draw inferences from large data sets
Prerequisites: MBA students will be required to review approximately 2 hours of pre-work videos.