Curtis Carmichael’s Business Analytics Course – Graduate Level
As taught at Southern New Hampshire University (two in-person lectures – 16 week course).
Course book, syllabus, lectures, assignments created by Curtis Carmichael. Copyright 2023-2025. All rights reserved Curtis Carmichael. Do not reuse/reformat/redistribute without express written permission.
Course Book & Materials:
- Syllabus
- Course Book (Edited by myself)
- Sample Paper
Modules (Weekly Lectures and Activities)
- Week 1 – Introduction to Business Analytics , Special Assignment
- Week 2 – Data Collection and Management
- Week 3 – Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
- Week 4 – Data Visualization and Communication
- Week 5 – Introduction to Business Intelligence Tools
- Week 6 – Introduction to Predictive Analytics
- Week 7 – Optimization and Simulation
- Week 8 – Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Week 9 – Social Network Analysis
- Week 10 – Geospatial Analytics
- Week 11 – Internal and External Communication
- Week 12 – Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Graphs
- Week 13 – Big Data and Cloud Computing
- Week 14 – Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business Analytics
- Week 15 – Ethics and Responsible Analytics
- Week 16 – Emerging Trends and Future Directions in Business Analytics