Singapore University of Social Sciences

ANL203 Analytics for Decision-Making is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge to design effective spreadsheet models and analyses to support decision-making in common business and financial scenarios (e.g., construct a quantitative pricing recommendation or optimise a supply chain network design). Students acquire knowledge of business analytics concepts and framework to develop analytical thinking by recognising key business assumptions. This course introduces analytics techniques in a problem-solving framework. It goes through the analytics life cycle in a systematic process, and uses live spreadsheet models to demonstrate data exploration, data preparation and transformation, algorithms for classification and prediction, optimisation and simulation. The course also examines the applications of Power BI throughout the analytics process in various social science and business scenarios. Students will work along the example and exercises in a "consulting" mode to reproduce models and analyses and make improvements.