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BIT-4854: Analytics in Action

Description: Problem-solving framework and analytic techniques for solving messy, unstructured, high-impact, real-world organizational/societal problems within an interdisciplinary, intercultural, experiential learning context. Definition of problem scope, objectives, need for change, ethical concerns, and diversity and inclusion issues; identification of stakeholders and their values; evaluation of decision tradeoffs; problem decomposition and hypothesis formulation; project planning and administration; data versus user requirements, ethical and inclusive decision making, data collection, preparation, and analysis; team roles and management; professional communication of insights, policy and action recommendations.

Pathways: 1A Discourse Advanced, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: BDS-2005, CMDA-2014

Crosslist: MGT-4854

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 4

Average GPA: 3.81 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 66.62%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Cliff T Ragsdale202295.2%3.7%0.0%0.0%1.1%0.0%3.893
Jason K Deane202359.2%40.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.561

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