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Application of advanced analytics in a business context using SAS. Topics include: data access and integration, predictive modelling, design of experiments, survival modelling and text analytics.

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Paper title Advanced Business Analytics
Subject Marketing
EFTS 0.1667
Points 20 points
Teaching period(s) Semester 2 (Distance learning)
Semester 2 (On campus)
Delivery mode The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught and assessed remotely
Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) $1,911.72
International Tuition Fees Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website.
Restriction
MART 448
Eligibility
Enrolments for this paper require departmental permission. View more information about departmental permission
Contact
damien.mather@otago.ac.nz
Teaching staff

Co-ordinator: Dr Damien Mather

Paper Structure
Topics include:
  • Basics of business analytics: thinking analytically and introduction to terminology
  • Classical statistics vs business analytics, data mining methodology
  • Predictive modelling
  • Introduction to design of experiments
  • Segmentation: case studies, cluster analysis, association analysis (market basket and sequence)
  • Forecasting concepts: case studies, time series models, marketing mix
Teaching Arrangements
Every week students must attend three 50-minute lectures and three 50-minute computer labs.
Textbooks

Required:
Advanced Business Analytics Course Notes Volumes 1 and 2, The SAS Institute, 2012.

Course outline
View the course outline for MART 448
Graduate Attributes Emphasised
Critical thinking, Information literacy.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.
Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this paper will be able to:

  • Explain how modern data analytics are used to influence business decision making in a marketing context
  • Reliably select optimal methods and appropriately specify associated parameters of advanced analytical techniques comprising both supervised and unsupervised models, including clustering, regression trees and logit models using training, holdout and testing subsets
  • Apply those analytical tools and techniques and interpret the findings appropriately to address common business problems and needs comprising market insights, forecasts, segmentation, targeting and customer retention
  • Critically evaluate the quality of data preparation and the choice of an appropriate analytic technique from both theoretical and practical perspectives

Overview

Application of advanced analytics in a business context using SAS. Topics include: data access and integration, predictive modelling, design of experiments, survival modelling and text analytics.

About this paper

Paper title Advanced Business Analytics
Subject Marketing
EFTS 0.1667
Points 20 points
Teaching period(s) Semester 2 (Distance learning)
Semester 2 (On campus)
Delivery mode The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught and assessed remotely
Domestic Tuition Fees Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set
International Tuition Fees Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website.
Restriction
MART 448
Eligibility

Enrolments for this paper require departmental permission.

Contact
Dr Damien Mather
Teaching staff

Co-ordinator: Dr Damien Mather

Paper Structure

Topics include:

  • Basics of business analytics: thinking analytically and introduction to terminology
  • Classical statistics vs business analytics, data mining methodology
  • Predictive modelling
  • Introduction to design of experiments
  • Text mining
  • Segmentation: case studies, cluster analysis, association analysis (market basket and sequence)

Teaching Arrangements
Every week students must attend three 50-minute lectures and three 50-minute computer labs.
Textbooks

Required:

  • Advanced Business Analytics Course Notes Volumes 1 and 2, The SAS Institute, 2012.
  • Course outline

    View the course outline for MART 548.

    Graduate Attributes Emphasised
    Critical thinking, Information literacy.
    View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.
    Learning Outcomes

    Students who successfully complete this paper will be able to:

    • Understand modern data analytics in the context of typical business problems, data environments, business structures, ethical and sustainable business and customer contexts.
    • Reliably select and specify useful analysis steps in a given data mining/predictive modelling problem approach.
    • Apply analytical tools to typical business problems and data.
    • Critically evaluate data preparation and techniques to become effective analysts of typically messy, flawed business data.
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