2610 - BUSINESS ANALYTICS SPECIAL PROJECT
1. Course Unit Aims
Business Analytics Special Project can be seen as a capstone-like experience in which the student would demonstrate a broad knowledge of Business Analytics by undertaking hands-on projects with realistic data.
Its main goal is to provide students an effective and meaningful understanding of the business analytics process and function through the concept of self-directed discovery and experiential learning. The primary activity in this course is a semester-wide project intended to produce a business analytics solution which provides substantive business utility, and to demonstrate its technical and economic feasibility in the contextual domain it was developed for.
Upon completion of the several components of the projects, students will demonstrate a broad knowledge and clear understanding of critical concepts, practices and issues in Business Analytics project development and completion.Additionally, students will acquire experience in understanding the organization they are working with, the managerial problems the institution is facing, they will learn how to use technology and leverage data to solve those problems, identifying and understanding all the constraints of its implementation.