The Graduate Certificate in Executive Business Analytics (EMBA Executive Business Analytics Concentration) is a cohort program comprised of six, two credit hour courses for a total of 12 credit hours.
Courses
BSAD 8440: Business Intelligence Data ExplorationThe first in any analytics project is to get data ready for analysis. In this class you will learn to extract data from a business data source and ready it for analysis in a business intelligence software tool. In the process you will learn tools necessary for this process including SQL, Power Query, M, and DAX.
BSAD 8140: Business Intelligence Analysis
In BSAD 8440 you learned how to extract and manipulate data in a business intelligence tool. In this class you will learn to use this data to extract business knowledge. To do this, you will learn about the data model, methods of aggregation, and visualizations in the business intelligence (BI) software.
BSAD 8160: Intermediate Analytics
Business Intelligence software tools are statistical in nature. Many of the visualizations/widgets use statistics "under the hood" to provide insights to you the user. Can you trust these insights? How are they calculated? When are they appropriate? In this class, you will learn the answers to these questions.
BSAD 8190: Applications in Analytics
What is a 'business question' and how do you answer it with data? In this class you will learn to form testable business questions. This course will build on the knowledge you gained in BSAD 8440, BSAD 8140, and BSAD 8160 to answer your business questions with the help of business intelligence software.
BSAD 8220: Advanced Applications in Analytics
Using the knowledge gained in BSAD 8440, BSAD 8140, BSAD 8160, and BSAD 8190, each student in this course will work individually to apply the entire business analytics process (starting with data collection and ending with using results to make informed decisions) to a real problem in their own organization.
BSAD 8660: Frontiers of Analytics
In this program, you have learned many analytics techniques. However, analytics is a constantly evolving field with increasingly advanced methods. What techniques might be presented to you as a manager? How do you interpret these results? In this class we will explore cutting-edge analytics methods and when they are appropriate for your business.