Master of Science in Business Analytics
A Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) is an interdisciplinary
Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies, practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning.[1] Business analytics focuses on developing new insights and understanding of business performance based on data and statistical methods. In contrast, business intelligence traditionally focuses on using a consistent set of metrics to both measure past performance and guide business planning, which is also based on data and statistical methods. Business analytics can be used to leverage prescriptive analytics towards automation.
Origin
The MSBA was a response to the increasing need of complex data analysis beyond traditional use of spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. Since 2001, the increasing
See also
- Big Data
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Predictive Analytics
- Decision Theory
- ETL
- Data Management
- Data Warehouse
- Operations research
- Network science
- Agile
References
- ^ Allen, Nathan (2014-12-13). "Big Data Drawing Big Student Enrollments". Poets and Quants. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
- ^ Baron, Ethan (2016-01-18). "Business Analytics Master's At 100 Top B-Schools". Poets and Quants. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
- ^ "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century". Retrieved 2016-09-03.