2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Nov 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

BSA 410 - Business Analytics


Description: Investigation of the role of an Analyst, the growing role of big data, and quantitative strategies. Use of statistical techniques for analyzing data for decision-making, answering business questions, and solving problems. 

Prerequisites: Program Admission. ACC 131, BSA 131, CSA 110, ECN 232, and ECN 236.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Business Analyst careers 
  2. Data-driven, evidence-based decision-making 
  3. Negative, Positive, and no-correlations  
  4. Data errors 
  5. Business Analytic terminology purpose 
  6. Big Data 
  7. Predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive analytics 
  8. Spreadsheet development/manipulation skills 

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Evaluate the Business Analyst role and value to organizations. (1) 
  2. Generate data for decision-making. (2, 6) 
  3. Evaluate data in Scatter Plots. (3) 
  4. Interpret data errors. (4) 
  5. Evaluate business analytic terminology and purpose. (5) 
  6. Compare predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive. (7) 
  7. Develop spreadsheet skills. (8)