Business intelligence analysts — employees tasked with studying and analyzing large amounts of data generated by businesses — are one of the top best-paying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) positions. In the business data analytics module, students will (1) learn core intranets: electronic data interchange, electronic banking and payment systems, security and firewalls, software agents, and the social, legal, and international issues of electronic commerce; (2) review business intelligence and analytics technologies; (3) define and frame the business context for decisions, decision models, data issues, business intelligence, building analytics capability, cloud computing, making organizations smarter, and measuring the value of analytics; and (4) study analytics software and techniques: data preparation, data exploration and visualization, predictive analytics techniques, text analytics, and spatial analytics.
One of the core problems in the broad arena of Information Technology is the extraction of useful information from massive amounts of data that is collected and stored. Two closely related disciplines lie at the head of the problem. The first is the construction of efficient, logically organized databases that reflect the physical and organizational realities that comprise the problem domain; and the second is the extraction of useful business intelligence from those databases.
This set of three courses in the Business Data Analytics certification will provide students with the specialized knowledge required to attack this problem domain.
Target Audience:
The target audience is professionals in organizations or fields that require business data analytics and would pursue the certification for job knowledge and career enhancement. Those students will be admitted as non-degree seeking, MIT-Commonwealth students.
We also expect graduate students, full- or part-time and currently enrolled in a VT graduate degree program related to business data analytics, to be interested in adding this certification as a supplement to their degree.
How To Apply:
External applications should complete the VT-MIT online application as a certificate-seeking student at https://vtmit.vt.edu/admissions/apply-now.html
Current VT students should contact the MIT Program Office about their interest in this certification at vtmit@vt.edu.
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