Data Integration and Preparation for Analytics & Visualization

3 Credits

Provides a comprehensive overview of the end-to-end processes for acquiring, ingesting, managing, cleansing, transforming, and integrating data sources for the purposes of reporting, analytics, and visualization. Concepts include data acquisition, data streaming, data staging, standardization, Data Profiling, data cleansing, data quality, concept and metadata harmonization, transformation, data warehousing, data governance, data modeling, and data visualization. Students will learn how ingested data sets can be transformed, integrated, and prepared for analytical use with dashboards and visualization.