This course provides students with the fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in organizations and shows how to apply basic business analytics tools, and how to communicate with analytics professionals to effectively use and interpret analytic models and results for making better fact-based business decisions. This course covers descriptive analytics, such as descriptive statistics and visualizing data; and predictive analytics, such as regression analysis, forecasting, and data mining. Emphasis is on applications, concepts and interpretation of results, rather than theory and calculations. Students will use a computer software package for data visualization and analysis.