Foundation of Business Analytics and Management Science

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use software for data analytics and to interpret its output.
• Extract, transform, filter and visualise data for analysis.
• Apply descriptive analytics techniques to analyse data for business and management problems.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicate ideas and arguments fluently and effectively in writing.
• Collect and critically analyse quantitative information.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Fundamental analytics skills for Business Analytics and Management Science.
• How different business analytics and management science techniques can be used to solve business and management problems.

The topics covered include:

• Data Management: introduction to databases, SQL, NoSQL
• Data visualisation using a relevant software tool (e.g. R, Tableau, PowerBI)
• Descriptive analytics (Descriptive statistics, Sampling and Hypothesis Testing)
• Regressions and time-series analysis

The precise topics covered may change slightly in response to what is determined to be the most relevant based on academic and industry practice. The programme team meets with CORMSIS Business Advisory Board regularly every year. The choice of software will be decided based on the relevance to industry and accessibility.

The module is delivered through pre-course reading, lectures and computer laboratory sessions.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Feedback

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Formative group feedback on students’ performance in in-lecture and lab exercises will be provided verbally immediately after the exercises.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.