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Introduction to Business Analytics

Busi 650
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University Canada West
University Canada West
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Abedeh Gholidoust
Assistant Professor
(1)
2
Timeline
  • May 16, 2022
    Experience start
  • May 18, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • June 2, 2022
    Experience end
Experience
4 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Large enterprise, Any, Small to medium enterprise
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Databases Data visualization Data analysis Data modelling
Skills
business analytics data analytics
Learner goals and capabilities

Students can work in a team or individually to bring company's data to life, and showing the areas where improvement is needed, using data mining techniques as well as data visualization

Learners

Learners
Graduate
Any level
20 learners
Project
6 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 9
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Data visualization using Tableau, Data mining using MySQL

Project timeline
  • May 16, 2022
    Experience start
  • May 18, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • June 2, 2022
    Experience end

Project examples

Under Licence bylaw No 4450 all active businesses in the City of Vancouver area are required to obtain a valid licence to have a legitimate operation.

Please refer to Business License Data for a list of permits issued from 1997 to 2022.

Area of Focus

Data Accuracy & Error Management

Address the following questions to investigate and present:

1) How does the Business licence data change from 1997 to present?

a. How did you address the data changes?

2) What were the common errors / issues you encountered with the data?

3) How did you mitigate the errors / issues?

4) What opportunities do some of the data “errors” present to City of Vancouver as the applicable jurisdiction?

5) Are there areas within the city that are over/under serviced?

a. How did you come to the result?

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

  • Q1 - Text short
    Do you have access to Tableau/MYSQL?
  • Q2 - Checkbox
    A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.