BDI 475 - Introduction to Data Analytics Applications in Business

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Gies College of Business

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.

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🎯 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.

👩‍🏫 Authors / Instructors¶

Ye Joo Park (Fall Sections) 👨‍🔬

Linden Lu (Spring Sections) 👨‍💻

⚖️ License¶

This textbook is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).