IFI 8430 - Advanced Analytics Experience

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: IFI 8410.
Description
We introduce the procedure of framing and solving business problems with machine learning and predictive analytics. Several real world business problems such as pricing, analyzing customer review data, market segmentation, customer discovery, and process improvement will be explored and tackled with analytics methods. Students will learn how to frame a business problem, collect and clean data, handle missing values, examine descriptive statistics, build different models and choose the most accurate and interpretable one, as well as present insights from the model output. This course is project-based with hands-on application of analytics tools and available packages to business data and problems to efficiently extract patterns and insights to create value.