Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Lecture

Online

Workshop

Module Offerings

5605DGABW-JAN-PAR

Aims

To learn and use valuable analytics skills, and to understand the need for analytics in the modern workplace and the systems that enable this.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Use adequate analytic tools and techniques to transform business data into actionable insight
2.
Justify the use of a particular analytic approach and communicate its managerial implications to a non-technical audience.
3.
Use appropriate data visualisation techniques to illustrate and articulate how modern companies are using business intelligence to solve old problems in new ways and pursue new opportunities.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Business analytics landscape, Need for/uses of Business Analytics, Techniques and software Time series analysis, Ethics and data, Visualisation, Storytelling with data, Big data, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Design considerations, Human centred design of analytics.
Additional Information:This module will cover bias in data and ML/AI, GDPR and use data that addresses sustainability, decarbonisation, and EDI issues as much as possible. Also referring to the content of the various BW programmes to keep it relevant and current.

Assessments

Portfolio