BAN 204 - Data Science and Business Analytics Foundations

Semester Hours: 3

The course surveys the common business analytics techniques used to access, clean, analyze, and visualize data. The emphasis is on the intuition behind the algorithms and hands-on learning with real-world datasets. Topics include foundations of programming with Python or R, data access and preprocessing, classification, clustering, visualization, and overview of advanced analytics topics such as text analytics, social media analytics, and Big Data technologies.

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Summer Session I 2026

Summer Session II 2026

Summer Session III 2026

Fall 2026