Business Analytics and Data Visualization

This course prepares students to turn business data into actionable information and communicate insights through visualizations. Students learn software systems that enable marketers to integrate and transform data, analyze the data, and visualize the results and insights. Students learn how to use these systems and related technology in the context of managing CRM for sales, marketing, and customer relationships. Students use analytical and data visualization software, to clean, manage and prepare data for analysis, and analyze real-world data sets to develop strategic recommendations for managerial actions. They apply techniques to convert data to information, explore datasets, analyze, summarize, and visualize data, creating interactive exploratory analytics and preliminary predictive analytics to develop actionable insights.