57E00500 - Capstone: Business Intelligence, Lecture, 24.2.2025-16.4.2025

Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The objective of the course is to give the students an understanding of the data informed decision-making. The focus is on business-oriented analytical skills, which enable the students to work with the data, to understand them and turn them into intelligence and actions.

Credits: 6

Schedule: 24.02.2025 - 16.04.2025

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Yong Liu

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

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    This course aims at providing an understanding of issues related to data informed decision-making and problem solving. To do this, it offers a balanced insight into the building blocks of business intelligence (BI), such as data management, reporting, and analytics. The course includes several guest speakers representing academia and business life. The course normally hosts a BI challenge event, collaborating with students from a comparable program at Turku School of Economics. During the BI challenge, students collaborate in small groups. The availability for the challenge event is usually confirmed a few months prior to the course.  The course requires both independent learning skills and organizational skills.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

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    • Assignments
    • Learning diary

Workload

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Contact teaching
    Independent work

DETAILS

Study Material

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    Course book: Carl Anderson (2015). Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches, Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

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    Teaching Language: English

    Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Spring IV - V
    2025-2026 Spring IV - V

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