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Area/Catalogue
INFS 5129

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Course Level
Postgraduate

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Offered Externally
Yes

Note: This offering may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

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Course ID
170528

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Unit Value
4.5

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University-wide elective course
No

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Timetable/s

Second Semester
(Study Period 5)
Course owner

Course owner
UniSA Business

Course aim

To equip business professionals with knowledge and skills to investigate and analyse opportunities for improving organisational decision-making practices with the help of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

Course content

Topics include problem structuring; sources and types of data; data validity and reliability; methods for obtaining data; core mathematical and statistical tools for analysing and transforming data; simple predictive and prescriptive analytics for diverse data and enterprise decision making problems in finance, marketing, supply chain, and human resources; errors and uncertainty; and monitoring, evaluation, and improvement of systems.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number Course Name
INFS 5130 Fundamentals of Data Analytics for Business

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar 3 hours x 10 weeks
Preparatory 1 week x 1 hour
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External 30 hours x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.


Assessment

Critical analysis, Learning log/Journal

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
International students and students undertaking this course as part of a postgraduate fee paying program must refer to the relevant program home page to determine the cost for undertaking this course.

Non-award enrolment
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.

Course Coordinators

Mr Chen-Kuo Chou
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UniSA Business

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