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IIT Hyderabad to conduct 5-day course on Business Analytics

UNI, Hyderabad | Published : 6th December, 2017

Recognizing the importance of business analytics as a discipline and the shortage of qualified data scientists, the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department of IIT Hyderabad is conducting a five-day certificate course on 'Business Analytics using R' for working professionals from December 21.

In this short duration course, techniques for market segmentation, forecasting and prediction, fraud detection and time series analysis will be taught, the Institute said in a release here on Wednesday.

All leading organizations and governments are using Business Analytics/Big Data Analytics techniques to compete and thrive. But there is a severe shortage of qualified data scientists,who are able to extract knowledge from Big Data, said Prof. Sobhan Babu, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad.

Big data analytics/Business Analytics is a discipline which is changing our lives drastically. It is touching every area of human society from banking to health care, he said.

The course is tailor-made for those working professionals who want to enhance their knowledge in business analytics as well as for those who are looking for career shift to business analytics.

This course will be taught by well qualified faculty from IIT Hyderabad who are experts in fraud analytics and experienced data scientists from the industry.

It is a case-study based course, with participants getting extensive hands-on training using the open source R statistical software, whose popularity has increased substantially in recent years.

Enrollment for the program has begun and registration is available on a first-come-first-serve basis, therelease added.

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