This course provides students with exposure to foundational data mining techniques. Topics include analytical thinking techniques and methods, data/exploring data, classification algorithms, association rule mining, cluster analysis and anomaly detection. Students will work individually and in groups on assignments and case study analyses.

This course introduces students to the challenges in large and small organizations related to data analysis and storage. Students will be introduced to economic infrastructure approaches for handling data securely. Platforms which are hosted both on-premises of organizations and in the cloud will be covered in this course.

This course introduces statistical methods of extracting meaning from data, and basic inferential statistics. Topics covered include data and data integrity, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, numeric summary measures, the normal distribution, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. The emphasis of the course is on statistical thinking rather than computation. Statistical software is used.

This course is an elementary introduction to the topics of regression and analysis of variance. The statistical software package Minitab will be used to reinforce these techniques. The focus of this course is on business applications. This is a general introductory statistics course and is intended for a broad range of programs.