College of Business

Familiarize students with the major activities involved in collecting and managing data for a data analytics project, including extracting information from relational databases, mapping organizational requirements into a data design, transforming data into information, and exploring basic concepts underlying noSQL data management and analysis methods. Prerequisite: BA 573 with C or better or BANA 560 with C or better Equivalent to: BA 574

Examines how data/text analysis technologies can be used to improve decision making. Covers the fundamental principles and techniques of data mining, text analysis, and uses real-world examples and cases to place data-mining techniques in context. Provides hands-on experience with data/text mining software. Prerequisite: (BA 574 with C or better or BANA 570 with C or better) and (BA 575 [C] or BANA 571 [C]) Equivalent to: BA 576