BU5003:03
Data Analysis and Information Management
| Townsville, Cairns, Sydney, Melbourne | HECS Band 2 |
40 hours lectures. Semester 1 (Townsville campus); Semester 2 (Cairns campus); August block mode (Sydney); July block mode (Melbourne).
Staff: Ms P Allingham (Townsville campus); Mr J Hamilton (Cairns campus).
The aim of this subject is to provide students with an integrated introduction to data analysis and information systems so that they will have the basic mathematical, statistical and information systems knowledge and experience necessary to understand, and contribute to, the organisational information requirements of the digital firm.
Learning Objectives:
- understanding information requirements within an organisation;
- understanding the various organisational information systems, the information supplied by the various information systems and how they fit within an organisational and management framework;
- understanding electronic commerce, its applications and implications, and how it integrates with the organisational information systems;
- understanding the concepts of end-user computing, including descriptive statistics, elementary inferential statistics, relational databases, decision support systems, expert support systems and the tasks involved in managing the IS function;
- understanding how Information Systems are planned and constructed.
Assessment to be advised by first week of lectures.