Data Analytics

Agenda

• Data is All Around Us
• Why are DA important for You?
• Faculty
• Future of Data Analytics

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Data is all Around Us

COVID-19 Data

Where does data come from and what does is tell us?

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What are Data Analytics?�

Data

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Information

Why are DA important for you?

• Data are everywhere!
• Evidence-based policy
• You as a citizen (Lies, lies and damned statistics!)
• Job market: huge demand
• Large-scale data and statistical analysis are essential for the business study of social groups and societies

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Theories and Explanations

Testable stories about relationship between different things (hypotheses)

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Theories and Explanations

• Identify regularities that are worth explaining
• Construct and test explanations for such patterns and regularities
• Address social problems, implement changes
• We are interested in theories - stories on why certain things happen (cause and effect)

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DA Faculty

Adebayo A. Aderounmu

Leon Cygman (on sabbatical in 2022)

Collette Lemieux

Laura Marik

Steven D. O'Krancy

Brad Quiring (on sabbatical until 2022)

Aditi Patil

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QM Courses

Stats & Analytics for Business

• Revised and refreshed in Fall 2021
• Required by all BBA students

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Business Statistics II

• New course and name in Fall 2022
• required by Accounting majors
• recommended to all BBA students

Future of QM

Data Analytics

Data Science

Questions?