We will have a total of 16 class meetings. Below is the tentative schedule.

TBD

Homework: 40%

    We will distribute 4 to 5 assignments during the semester. While you are allowed to discuss homework questions with classmates, you must finish all assignments by yourself.

Midterm Exam: 25%

    We will explain the exam logistics in detail. No make-up exam can be scheduled without prior arrangements.

Term Project: 35%

    You have to form a group of 3-4 people to work on this. The project will require you to identify one or multiple questions and apply analysis technique(s) learnt from this course. More details regarding the term project will be discussed as the course proceeds.

Each group will make a final presentation of their term project on June 03 and June 10. All registered students should come to class and see what other groups have done. For the presentation, please consider yourselves as business analysts who have to show their effort in a logical/clear fashion and convince the audience that their investigation is useful.

In addition, your group has to turn in a report written in ADEQUATE Chinese or English. The report must 1) articulate the research question, 2) explain the method/model you use to tackle the question, 3) specify data source and variables, 4) show exploratory data analysis, 5) present results of model-based analysis, and 6) discuss implications of research findings.

    The written report is going to be due on June 17. Please e-mail us the report in .pdf and the R code. Do keep the report short and sweet.

Lecture notes and assigned readings will be provided. So NO textbooks are required. Below lists our key references in developing this course.

Chapman & Feit 2015. R for Marketing and Analytics (e-copy available from NCCU library website).

Shmueli et al. 2017.  Data Mining for Business Analytics.

Bertsimas et al. 2016. The Analytics Edge.