Visualisation and Data Wrangling

This subject provides an introduction to the essential skills for the management of business data to enable the application of analytics and evidence-based decision-making in business. It entails the study of the principles and tools for business data management and modelling. The focus of the subject is enabling business decision-making, and includes consideration of effective presentation and reporting of business data. Data sets will be drawn from multiple industries and business disciplines.

• 1Manage common issues in the manipulation of business data of different types (e.g., timestamp, textual data)
• 2Collect and compile business data from multiple sources
• 3Define appropriate business metrics and variables for a given data set
• 4Explain the principles and issues involved in the effective presentation of business data for decision-making purposes