Advanced Business Intelligence and Analytics

Course aim

Apply business intelligence (BI) and analytics frameworks and methods to support reporting and decision making.

Course content

Students in this course will apply CRISP-DM framework to support reporting and decision-making on the given business task. The course content covers understanding of the business task and selection of suitable data for analysis, data quality assessment, preliminary exploration of the problem and writing analytic plan; application of analytic methods to build the solution (model), critical evaluation of the solution against the business requirements, and summarising results with justifications into a report for the decision-makers. Students are introduced to Tableau and KNIME tools (but use other suitable tools is negotiable for assignments), and will be introduced into ethical and legal aspects of data collection, access, storage, and analytics.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Seminar	1 hour x 13 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE
External	N/A x 13 weeks

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

Assessment

Presentation, Report, Skills demonstration

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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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.