{"id":417,"date":"2019-02-12T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:25:33","slug":"what-should-be-the-subjects-course-structure-for-teaching-data-analytics-data-science-in-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/what-should-be-the-subjects-course-structure-for-teaching-data-analytics-data-science-in-mba\/","title":{"rendered":"What should be the subjects & course structure for teaching Data Analytics \/ Data Science in MBA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Data Science & Analytics including Operations \/ Decision Science are evolving fields which are in demand currently for various reasons. Most companies are experimenting and creating projects \/ products around analytics \/ data science. I am listing the subjects & courses that an MBA student should take to cover Data Science \/ Analytics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Mathematics \u2014 Intermediate level statistics, linear algebra, discreet mathematics & basic calculus<\/li>
  2. Introduction to Business Analytics & Data Science \u2014 covering basics of the subjects like what is machine learning, artificial intelligence, major software \/ products, data science \/ analytics basics including various types of data, sentiment analysis, basics of algorithms and contemporary topics<\/li>
  3. BigData ecosystem \u2014 Concepts of Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, NoSQL and the ecosystem around it<\/li>
  4. Business Intelligence \u2014 covering reporting, dash-boarding, visualization and contemporary topics around it<\/li>
  5. Business Analysis \u2014 covering concepts of how to collect requirements, build a project plan \/ statement of work, proposals, proof of concepts, concepts of AGILE \/ DevOps, data analysis, business process re-engineering and similar<\/li>
  6. Programming in R & Python for managers \u2014 Intermediate level topics including data manipulation \/ cleaning, charting \/ visualization, running major machine learning algorithms, mathematics functions and libraries<\/li>
  7. Data warehousing \u2014 covering the introduction of it and multi-dimensional cubes, business dimensions, star \/ snowflake schema, process of ETL and similar<\/li>
  8. Data mining \u2014 covering major algorithms in supervised \/ unsupervised \/ semi-supervised areas and their implementation<\/li>
  9. Cloud computing \u2014 covering cloud architecture, offerings & major product companies<\/li>
  10. Operations subjects \u2014 which should include Operations management, Operations research, Project Management, Logistics & Supply Chain management, Total Quality Management<\/li>
  11. Case study, use case and industry driven internships and projects which give exposure to students using proprietary \/ open source tools & products mapped to domains like Digital marketing, Financial analytics, HR analytics, Web \/ Mobile analytics, Advertising, Operational Analytics, eCommerce, Manufacturing, Banking, etc. used in industry to join all of the above together into implementation<\/li>
  12. Above goes with an assumption that students already have intermediate level skills in productivity tools like MS-Office \/ Google Docs\/Sheets, Linux, Year 1 general management subjects like Finance, HR, Marketing, etc.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Reach out to me at neil@TechAndTrain.com<\/a> if you want to discuss Data Science \/ R \/ Java \/ Python \/ etc. or want to conduct a training for MBA \/ BE \/ MCA \/ MSc students or are interested in having a workshop for on Data Science \/ R \/ Java \/ AWS \/ Excel \/ etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Data Science & Analytics including Operations \/ Decision Science are evolving fields which are in demand currently for various reasons. 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