Applied Analytics Minor

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The minor in Applied Analytics prepares undergraduate students in the field of data analytics as applied to real world situations. Applications vary from business to health care, social media to sports. The goal is to educate students to become data analysts, not data scientists.

Students in the minor will learn all aspects of analytics: technology infrastructure to stage data, techniques to analyze data, tools to visualize data, and systems to publish and share the results.

Requirements for minor completion: Minimum units 18

Required Courses (12 units)

ITP 250x Database Systems for Analytics Units: 2
ITP 251 Applied Statistics for Analytics Units: 2
ITP 350x Technologies and Practices for Analytics Units: 4 *
ITP 449x Data Mining: Descriptive and Predictive Units: 4

Electives (Choose a minimum of 6 units)

ITP 470 Information Technology Practicum Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
ITP 487 Data Warehouses Units: 3 *
ITP 489 In-Memory Database Systems for Real Time Analytics Units: 3 *
DSO 424 Business Forecasting Units: 4 *
DSO 428 Data Warehousing and Data Mining Units: 4 *