Applied Optimisation in Business

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  By the end of this 12-week subject, you'll be able to:

  1. Analyse business problems to select suitable machine learning model.
  2. Appraise how modelling techniques improve data-driven and model-driven performance in solving business problems.
  3. Critique the selection of machine learning models to solve a business problem.
  4. Apply machine learning techniques to enhance business decision making and communicate the findings to expert and non-expert stakeholders. 

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Torrens University Australia

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Elective

• TUA-ANA-GCE-2026 - Graduate Certificate of Analytics
• TUA-CBA-GCE-2026 - Graduate Certificate of Business Administration

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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