BU5003 - Data Analysis and Information Management

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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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 Outcomes

• understanding electronic commerce, its applications and implications, and how it integrates with the organisational information systems;
• understanding how Information Systems are planned and constructed;
• understanding information requirements within an organisation;
• 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 the various organisational information systems, the information supplied by the various information systems and how they fit within an organisational and management framework.

Availabilities
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Contact hours:	40 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Contact hours:	40 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).

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