Data Science for Business Intelligence (DSBI)

Business intelligence refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business data in order to support business decision making. Essentially, it is a collection of data-driven decision support models. Data science studies the computational principles, methods and processes for extracting information and knowledge from various types of data. It has been successfully used in many fields such as economics, finance, marketing, psychology, physics, and engineering, to provide insights into data as well as to support decision making. This course teaches students analytical skills on empirical data by introducing popular data science methods to support decision making and evaluation in business. It uses a combination of lectures and workshops. The course emphasizes the practical applications and makes extensive use of Python for business data visualization and analysis.