Undergraduate SWI-INF30004-2022
Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation
Get data smart. Source intelligence from diverse data supplies to help senior management make decisions that solve major commercial problems. Use analysis, predictive analytics, and data visualisation tools to generate key data insights.
$3,445 $3,695
Your upfront cost: $0
Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- HECS-HELP
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Required
Start dates
- 29 Aug 2022
QS RANKING 2022
19
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
23
Subject details
Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:
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Demonstrate an understanding of the strategic value of information, data management, and Business Intelligence to organisational decision-making activities
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Contextualise business problems in order to evaluate the requirements for information and data
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Analyse large corporate datasets using complementary Business Intelligence/Business Analytics tools to generate insights and provide alternative solutions to an organisation's complex problems
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Evaluate the technological, social, management, and organisational issues affecting the application and/or implementation of Business Intelligence related activities
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Communicate effectively as a professional and function as an effective leader or member of a team
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- Concept of business value from corporate data, the exploitation of information for advantage, types and sources of information value
- Nature and value of business intelligence, the business intelligence environment, and how types of data processing can add value
- Knowledge discovery, data mining, data warehousing
- Business analytics, OLAP analysis, metadata
- Data visualisation, visualisation techniques, dashboard
- The relationship between corporate strategy, IS strategy and business intelligence strategy
- BI links to enterprise systems, Customer Relationships Management, Supply Chain Management, Structured & unstructured data, content management systems
- Privacy, ethical, legal issues associated with BI Implementation
- BI, Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems and Executive Information Systems
- Data modelling, star schemas
- Using select and complementary BI/BA tools to provide insights in decision making scenarios
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of- SWI-INF10002-Database Analysis and Design (No longer available)
- SWI-INF20004 (Not currently available)
- SWI-INF20003-Requirements Analysis and Modelling
- SWI-INF20010 (Not currently available)
- SWI-INF20011 (Not currently available)
- SWI-INF20016-Big Data Management (No longer available)
Others
Students should have completed 150 Credit Points (12 units) including the prerequisites listed above.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This subject was previously known as Business Intelligence.
This subject covers issues relating to deriving intelligence from various data sources for decision making purposes. Students gather skills to drive improved decision making process for senior management based on understanding data. Students will know the importance of understanding the short and long term goals of the organisation and how these impact the decision making process. Student will use tools that enable data analysis, predictive analytics, data visualisation to assist in the delivery of delivering real-time actionable intelligence.
- Group (30-50%)
- Individual (20-30%)
- Individual (10-20%)
- Individual (20-30%)
Current study term: 28 Aug 22 to 27 Nov 22
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