2024 Capstone Course (Project Management, Data Analysis, Data Science, Business Analytics and Operation Management)

University of California, Riverside Extension
Riverside, California, United States
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Assistant Professor
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Timeline
  • April 29, 2024
    Experience start
  • July 10, 2024
    Experience end
Experience
6/7 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Any industries
Categories
Data visualization Data analysis Market research Project management Competitive analysis
Skills
business analytics data analytics marketing strategy research financial risk analysis product management tableau microsoft excel microsoft power bi google analytics
Learner goals and capabilities

This Course allows students to demonstrate their proficiency in the key concepts of business analytics. As a capstone project, students will understand and critically apply the concepts and methods of business analytics., analytical skills, data visualization, data mining, data warehouse, and big data analytics throughout the program. Through this course, students will acquire soft (communications) and hard (technical) skills to support business analytics projects and decision-making. We will focus on using methodologies and analytical tools to solve real-world problems in R&D, marketing, supply chain, healthcare, finance, and so on.

Learners
Graduate
Any level
35 learners
Project
10 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 8
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The project's final deliverables may consist of:

  • A detailed report including their research, analysis, insights, and recommendations.
  • A presentation that includes suggestions for solving the problem facing your organization.

Please make sure to give them access to any software they might need if your business has a specific application or format that you would like them to utilize.

Project timeline
  • April 29, 2024
    Experience start
  • July 10, 2024
    Experience end
Project Examples

Students will collaborate with your business in groups of three to seven to determine your needs and offer practical solutions based on their in-depth investigation and analysis.

Project activities might include but are not limited to:

  • Analyze a complex project using business analytics.
  • Gain insights for decision-makers by utilizing data mining and data visualization approaches.
  • Make predictions using methods for descriptive and predictive analysis.
  • Be able to produce or comprehend primary data to answer a question, as well as recognize appropriate secondary data sources for doing so.
  • Clearly communicate outcomes to an outside audience and be able to provide a summary of those results.
  • Examine a challenging assignment using business analytics
  • possess self-discipline, leadership qualities, outstanding communication skills, a strong work ethic, and the capacity to work autonomously.
  • Keep team members informed on any product management knowledge
  • Use the proper statistical modeling approaches, such as k-nearest neighbors, random forests, logistic regression, decision trees, naive Bayes' classifier, time series analysis, neural nets, and boosted trees.
  • Give the mathematical formula used by the statistical model to forecast the probability of success.
  • Recommendations that cover the commercial aspects of model deployment
  • Analysis of the budget to examine a wide range of data, assess costs and benefits, and resolve challenging issues
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

• Provide relevant information/data as needed for the project.• Assemble a committed contact who will be accessible to respond to students' inquiries via sporadic emails, phone calls, or virtual calls over the project.• Be prepared for a brief phone or virtual contact with the instructor to establish your relationship and ascertain whether your scope is suitable for the course.• Attend at least two further sessions with the students to check on progress, allay concerns, and provide clarification.