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GGI 4202 Spatial Business Intelligence - Course Outline

This document provides an overview of the "Spatial Business Intelligence" course offered as part of the Bachelor of Science programs in Geomatic Engineering/Geospatial Information Systems and Geospatial Information Science. The objectives are to provide an understanding of spatial business intelligence concepts and tools. Students will learn to create and manage spatially-enabled business data, perform analysis and visualization, and design intelligence applications. Topics include spatial modeling, big data visualization, data integration, thematic mapping, and case studies. Reference materials include textbooks on business intelligence, GIS, and location analysis.

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GGI 4202 Spatial Business Intelligence - Course Outline

This document provides an overview of the "Spatial Business Intelligence" course offered as part of the Bachelor of Science programs in Geomatic Engineering/Geospatial Information Systems and Geospatial Information Science. The objectives are to provide an understanding of spatial business intelligence concepts and tools. Students will learn to create and manage spatially-enabled business data, perform analysis and visualization, and design intelligence applications. Topics include spatial modeling, big data visualization, data integration, thematic mapping, and case studies. Reference materials include textbooks on business intelligence, GIS, and location analysis.

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Dedan Kimathi University of Technology


Department of Geomatics and Geospatial Information Science
Bachelor of Science in Geomatic Engineering and Geospatial Information Systems
&
Bachelor of Science in Geospatial Information Science

UNIT CODE: GGI 4202 Spatial Business Intelligence

Objectives
Provide students with a good understanding of Spatial Business Intelligence.

Course Expectations
At the end of this unit, the students should be able to:
• Understand the basic concepts and theories of GIScience and trends of GIS technologies
• Create and manage spatially-enabled business data.
• Use appropriate GIS analysis functions to visualize and analyze business-related data
• Model business processes using GIS’ advanced analytical methods
• Design and implement spatially enabled business intelligence applications

Course Outline:
1. Introduction
2. Definition of terms
3. Overview of Spatial Business Intelligence:
4. Concepts and theories of Spatial Business Intelligence
 Capabilities of technology in conducting spatial business analysis
 Standards, Infrastructure and meta-data
 Spatial modeling and visualization
5. GIS and location-aware technologies
6. Internet of Things (IOT)
7. Big Data visualization techniques
8. Spatial Data Integration
 From enterprise databases and data warehouses to spatial data warehouses.
 Spatially enabling enterprise data.
 Integrating external geospatial market data.
9. Spatial Data Maintenance
10. Map servers (APIs, REST interfaces, RIA toolkits, WMS and WFS).
11. Thematic mapping and spatial analysis,
 Case Studies

Course Text Books


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1. Turban, E., King, D., Sharda, R., & Delen, D. (2013). Business intelligence: a managerial
perspective on analytics. Prentice Hall, New York.

2. Loshin, D. (2012). Business intelligence: the savvy manager's guide. Newnes.

3. Sauter, V. L. (2014). Decision support systems for business intelligence. John Wiley & Sons.

4. Minelli, M., Chambers, M., & Dhiraj, A. (2012). Big data, big analytics: emerging business
intelligence and analytic trends for today's businesses. John Wiley & Sons.

Course Journals
1. Journal of Geospatial Systems Information

2. International Journal of Spatial Sciences

Reference Text Books


1. Church, R.L. & Murray, A.T. (2009) Business Site Selection, Location Analysis, and GIS.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey.

2. Douglas, B. (2008) Achieving Business Success with GIS. John Wiley & Sons., West Sussex,
England.

3. Pick, J. B. (2008) Geo-Business: GIS in the Digital Organization, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

4. Pick, J. B. (2005) Geographic Information Systems In Business, Idea Group Publishing,


Hershey, USA. (eBook)

5. Cliquet, G. (2006) Geomarketing: Methods and Strategies in Spatial Marketing, iSTE


Publisher, London, UK.

Reference Journals
1. Journal of Geosciences

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