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Learning Outcomes
1. | Critically analyse the role of business analytics in supporting decision making in a modern organisation, with a focus of working with different data formats and data wrangling techniques; | ||
2. | Investigate and assess different analytics solutions in open source environments to develop effective visualisations; | ||
3. | Evaluate analytics models to uncover hidden patterns in business data and understand relationships between variables; | ||
4. | Deconstruct and exemplify data communication strategies through reproducible reporting and collaborative practices with version control; and, | ||
5. | Exemplify creative and innovative problem-solving of complex professional challenges through the application data analytics in the business domain. |
Assessment
Melbourne campuses
Students studying under the VU Block Model.
Assessment type | Description | Grade |
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Test | Practical exercises | 25% |
Assignment | Data Analytics Project: a Kaggle style data analysis and presentation (data wrangling) - Group | 35% |
Report | Research report (Working with a real-world data to develop and evaluate a data model) | 40% |
Other locations
Assessment type | Description | Grade |
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Assignment | Role of business analytics to support decision making processes | 10% |
Assignment | Data Analytics Project using Kaggle for analysis and presentation (data wrangling) | 40% |
Report | Research report (Working with a real-world data to develop and evaluate a data model) | 50% |
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