MSBA-520: Programming Methods for Business Analytics

This course applies analytical programming methods and logic to business data sets to support analytics for gaining business insights. The course’s aim is to develop a foundation for using programming methods as tools for accessing data from external sources, preparing data sets for analysis, managing and transforming data sets, and working with variables, logical operators, and functions to be able to perform fundamental descriptive and inferential statistical methods.  This course uses fundamental programming language concepts to import, organize, analyze, and report findings. Topics include analytical programming, control structures, operators, functions, structures, and plotting.  The current programming language used in this course is the R programming language with a brief introduction to Python.