This is the online textbook for BDI 475 - Introduction to Data Analytics Applications in Business, a course offered by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of data analytics and its applications in business contexts.
Please see Canvas for the most up-to-date syllabus, schedule, and assignments.
👩🏫 Authors / Instructors¶
- Ye Joo Park (Fall)
- Linden Lu (Spring)
🎯 Learning Objectives¶
Upon completing this course, you should be able to…
- Identify business problems
- Find relevant datasets
- Load and clean datasets
- Transform data
- Perform descriptive analytics
- Present findings effectively
🗂️ Course Topics¶
- Introduction to Python
- Working with data using Pandas
- Introduction to SQL
- Data visualization with Plotly and Tableau
- Exploratory data analysis
📋 Prerequisites¶
- No formal prerequisites are required, though a basic understanding of statistics will be helpful.
- No programming experience is necessary. This course provides plenty of hands-on coding practice.
- A laptop or desktop computer with at least 4 GB of RAM is required.