Applied Analytic with R , SAS , Python and SAP

The course is about fundamental concepts of the emerging field of business analytics and provides vital tools in understanding how data analysis works in today’s organizations.

Depending on the level of the course, students will learn to apply basic business analytics principles, communicate with analytics professionals, and effectively use and interpret analytic models to make better business decisions.

Some commercial-grade analytics software will be evaluated in this course ( R, SAS, Python ) and it provides real-world experience and career-focused value. We will look at business analytics from descriptive, and predictive perspectives.

•Foundations of Business Analytics

. Data Management and Visualization

• Selecting a Research Question 

• Writing the first program using SAS or Python 

• Managing Data 

• Visualizing Data 

•Descriptive Analytics

• Visualizing and Exploring Data

•Predictive Analytics

• Forecasting Techniques

• Introduction to Data Mining

•Prescriptive Analytics

• Linear Optimization

• Decision Analysis

Topics variation depending on the program :

• • 1. Data analytics

    2. Business Intelligence ( Using Various tools ) 

    3. Big data   ( Using SAP Data Hub) 

    4. Data mining: Descriptive and predictive data mining, including but not limited to decision trees, statistical techniques, clustering, and regression techniques

    5. Forecasting

    6. Data visualization and dashboards  ( Using SAP Lumira )

    7. Data analytic tools from leading software vendors

    8. Data warehousing

    9. Relational and non-relational databases

    10. R and/or Python programming for analytics

    11. Machine learning

• 1. Using Cloud Analytics for the Intelligent Enterprise  ( Using SAP )