DSA 6200 - Data Visualization

Institution:

Pennsylvania Western University

Subject:

Data Science & Analytics

Description:

Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools are unable to handle the Big Data challenge due to exponential growth of data volume, velocity and variety. To cope up with this new demand, organizations are embracing new techniques like data visualization which involves data discovery and exploration. Technology giants like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix use powerful data visualization tools to gain customer insights on their choices and apply them into their service offerings. Organizations are able to ask better questions and derive better decisions. This introductory course will teach students how organizations can harness the power of Big Data through data visualization. Students will learn how to capture data in visual format for better decisions using data viz tools like SAS, Tableau.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pennwest.edu/

Phone Number:

(724) 938-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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