Predictive Analytics in Business

3 Credits

The course covers theories and practices in predictive analytics in business. Students will have hands-on experience on analyzing business data for business intelligence and improved business decision making. Includes: key theories, concepts, and models of predictive analytics; and data mining tools to formulate and solve business problems. The course uses data analytics software and real data. Topics include prediction, forecasting, classification, clustering, data-visualization and data reduction techniques. Not available to students who have credit for BIS 448 or BIS 456 . Prerequisites: ( BUAN 044 or BIS 044) and ( ECO 045 or MATH 012 or MATH 231 )