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Marketing Insights into Big Data
Postgraduate | TAS-BMA708 | 2023
Course information for 2023 intake
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- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Marketing Insights into Big Data
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Critically examine different methods of data analysis and presentation for social networks, complex systems and relational links.
- Apply intermediate skills in spreadsheets and data visualisation software to identify trends and relationships among factors in industry and society.
- Analyse government, industry and social media data to identify relationships and trends.
- Critically evaluate conclusions drawn from different data and analytic tools.
- Create interactive models using appropriate software and effectively communicate results and findings to aid decision-makers in understanding interrelationships and trends.
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Marketing decision-making is growing in importance in the business world. More than ever before, organisations are placing greater emphasis on the marketers' ability to evaluate, anticipate, and illustrate the contribution of marketing to organisational performance. Increasingly, senior managers are requiring greater rigour and accountability for investments in marketing activities. Within marketing, there is arealisation that practitioners need to be able to justify their strategies, tactics and the associated outcomes, using relevant metrics. Marketing analytics seeks to build a link between the marketing activity of the organisation and the outcomes that result from it.
The focus of this subject is on developing, analysing, and evaluating appropriate models to measure the performance of marketing activities. It will develop students' knowledge of key strategic and technical decision-making models and metrics that form the foundation of marketing analytics. Students will gain knowledge and skills to predict the outcome of marketing plans in order to boost return on marketing investment.
- Descriptive Statistics Analysis (35%)
- Data Visualisation (35%)
- Big Data Reporting using Correlation Analysis (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-MMK-MAS-2023 - Master of Marketing Management
- TAS-MKT-GCE-2023 - Graduate Certificate in Marketing
Elective
- TAS-BHI-GCE-2023 - Graduate Certificate in Behavioural Insights
- TAS-FIN-MAS-2023 - Master of Finance
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2023 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Introduction Lecture: 1hr, once in a term Weekly recorded lecture: 1hr, 13 weeks Online Workshop: 3hrs, 4 times in a semester
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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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Postgraduate
TAS-MMK-MASPostgraduate
TAS-MKT-GCEPostgraduate
TAS-BHI-GCEPostgraduate
TAS-FIN-MASPostgraduate
OUA-PSU-GCE