As the use of big data become increasingly important to businesses, it is essential to analyse the data and provide meaningful view and knowledge to support judgment and action plans. This unit provides students with advanced analytical methodologies and data mining models for ICT business analytics, as well as contemporary techniques to visualise the data for decision support. The content includes data preparation, association rule analysis, classification, clustering, regression, anomaly detection, building analytic models using SQL and data visualisation.

Unit details

Location:
Footscray Park
VU Sydney
Study level:
Undergraduate
Credit points:
12
Unit code:
NIT3171

Prerequisites

NIT2171 - Introduction to ICT Management or

NIT2202 - Big Data or

NIT2271 - ICT Change Management

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. Review in a group (team work) the current algorithms, methodologies and modelling for ICT business analytics;  
  2. Evaluate in a group (team work) the various ICT business analytic tools and techniques;  
  3. Review in more depth the current algorithms, methodologies and modelling for ICT business analytics based on the outcome of the student group assignment deliverable;  
  4. Evaluate various ICT business analytic tools and techniques for the business interesting points finding from the student group work deliverable; and  
  5. Propose a business analytics report to solve practical problems identified in an ICT business project.  

Assessment

Assessment type Description Grade
Test Tests 30%
Project Group Project on BA solution development 35%
Assignment Case Study 35%

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You can choose to study this unit as part of the following courses. Refer to the course page for information on how to structure your course to include this unit.

Course Study as part of
Bachelor of Information Technology ICT Management - Discipline Minor
Bachelor of Business Professional Accounting - Discipline Minor
Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Business Professional Accounting - Discipline Minor
Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Business Professional Accounting - Discipline Minor

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