Big Data Business Analytics

MBAD 6211
Closed
UNC Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Assistant Professor
1
Timeline
  • April 1, 2018
    Experience start
  • April 16, 2018
    Project Scope Meeting
  • May 11, 2018
    Experience end
Experience
1 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Skills
machine learning statistics business analytics
Student goals and capabilities

Graduate MBA Students in the Business Analytics program will carry out an analytics project from initial requirements analysis to final implementation by analyzing big data using machine learning algorithms and/or statistical models.

Students

Students
Any level
60 students
Project
20 hours per student
Students self-assign
Teams of 4
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Students will conduct an identification of problems, building data mining/statistical models, and validation. They will provide all results to their company partner.

Project timeline
  • April 1, 2018
    Experience start
  • April 16, 2018
    Project Scope Meeting
  • May 11, 2018
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

During an intensive, one day challenge, graduate students in the MBA or Data Science and Business Analytics programs will carry out an analytics project on your company's data, by analyzing big data using machine learning algorithms and/or statistical models.

Project examples include:

  • Data analysis with Alaskan Airlines 
  • Data analysis of King County (WA) real estate transactions
  • Home loan analysis using Freddie Mac data
  • Marketing analysis for Hawkeye Channel
  • Salary analysis for Payscale

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
  • question

    Provide any needed information and data sets to the students so that they can work independently on the project you provide.