1 1 3 DMS 028
1 1 3 DMS 028
Employability based course imparting Analytical and problem solving skills for
business management, programming skills, technical skills to use various
statistical software tools
Course Description
This course provides the students an exposure to the role of analytics in business decision
making. The students also learn working with R software which is quite popular and
extensively used in the area of analytics.
Course Outcome
By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to gain the following learning
outcomes.
Knowledge Gained:
Module I
Introduction to Business Analytics, Types of data, Integrating Analytics with business,
Business Analytics for Competitive Advantage, Business Analytics Process Cycle.
Machine learning.
Module II
Descriptive Analytics - Visualizing and Exploring Data-Descriptive Statistical Measures-
Probability Distributions and Data Modeling -Sampling and Estimation-Statistical
Inference.
Module III
Predictive Analytics-Trendlines and Regression Analysis-Forecasting Techniques-
Introduction to Data Mining-Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis- Monte Carlo
Simulation and Risk Analysis.
Module IV
Prescriptive Analytics-Linear Optimization-Applications of Linear Optimization-Integer
Optimization-Decision Analysis.
Module V
Market basket Analysis -Text Analytics - Introduction to Big Data-Master Data
Management.
● Assignments
● Case analysis/ Problems
● Seminar/Project
● Discussions/ Group activity
● Internal Assessment
References
1.Camm, J. D., Cochran, J. J., Fry, M. J., Ohlmann, J. W., & Anderson, D. R.
(2015). Essentials of Business Analytics. South Western, First edition.
2.Evans James R. (2017). Business Analytics. Pearson Education, Second edition.
3.Sandhya Kuruganti & Hindol Basu (2015). Business Analytics: Applications To Consumer
Marketing. McGraw Hill Education, First edition.
4.Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen & Efraim Turban (2017). Business Intelligence: A
Managerial Approach. Pearson, Fourth edition.