Courses NonDegree Display 2024-2025

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Course title Business Intelligence Case Studies
Course code EBC4107
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
5 14-4-2025 8-6-2025 X X
Level Advanced
Coordinator Mohsen Pourpounehnajafabadi
For more information: m.pourpouneh@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
This course aims at providing students with tools and experience to analyse real-life data for a real-time, sensitive business intelligence case-study.
Description
This course is highly technical, and treats the practical aspects of producing real-life Business Intelligence, as well as covering the computational tools to implement this. Tools for the analysis of data are discussed, focusing on tools which emphasise the importance of uncertainty in intelligent decision-making.
We study how (and how not) to build predictive models to frequently extract information from dynamic data, and how to interpret these methods and summaries intuitively and efficiently develop new services for the organisations that provide the data.
These techniques will be implemented with the R open-source software. Cases are selected from the literature and our own research experience.
Literature
* Kruschke, J. (2014). Doing Bayesian data analysis: A tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan.
* https://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/
* Gelman, A., Carlin, J. B., Stern, H. S., Dunson, D. B., Vehtari, A., & Rubin, D. B. (2013). Bayesian Data Analysis. CRC Press.
* Other materials will be made available through Student Portal.
Prerequisites
This course has been cancelled for the master Digital Business and Economics.
See the Master Education and Examination Regulations for more information.


This course is in transition for the master Business Research.
See the Master Education and Examination Regulations for more information.

The following rule applies to master Business Research students who started the programme prior to academic year 2024-2025.
TRANSITIONAL REGULATION (EBC4107):
The master Business Research has been discontinued.
Courses of the Business Research master’s programme will continue to be offered until and including academic year 2025-2026 with exam opportunities running until and including 2026-2027.


PREREQUISITES:
* Basic Statistics
* Regression
* Basic R
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Assignment / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Participation / Presentation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Master Business Research - No specialisation Transitional Regulation
Master Business Research - Operations Research Transitional Regulation
Master Digital Business and Economics Deprecated
Master Human Decision Science Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Accounting and Business Information Technology Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Entrepreneurship and Business Development Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Managerial Decision-Making and Control Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Information Management and Business Intelligence Compulsory Course(s)
Master International Business - Marketing-Finance Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Organisation: Management, Change and Consultancy Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategic Corporate Finance Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategic Marketing Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategy and Innovation Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Supply Chain Management Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Sustainable Finance Elective Course(s)
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