CIS 385 Introduction to Business Analytics
(3-0-3) This course introduces business analytics, an important information systems field that deals with analyzing data to help business organizations make better decisions. Big Data (unstructured large amount of data) is discussed with selected examples. Technical tools (electronic spreadsheet programs such as Excel, data analysis programming languages such as R, Big Data management frameworks such as Hadoop, etc.) and conceptual business tools (analysis models, statistical learning, etc.) are introduced to help students develop fundamental knowledge and skills for further mastery of advanced business analytics.