After attending this course, students will be able to understand and apply the principles, methods and tools of business analytics to problems in the Marketing area. This includes how to:
• Handle data files in R
• Use visualization tools to identify patterns and trends
• Formulate and test hypothesis, and interpret their results in a business context
• Apply analysis of variance, regression analysis and exploratory factor analysis, and interpret the results of such analyses to support data driven decision-making in a business context
• Forecast based on historical data
• Interpret the results at each stage and use them for the subsequent planning stages
• Visualize results on a map