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BAX 365 BAX 365. Ethics of Business Analytics. 3 Hours.
Restricted to students in a business major. Analyze the ethical questions and implications of applying data science to business problems. Examine ethical, policy, and legal terminology used to conceptualize challenges. Explore technical approaches to characterize ethical problems, and historical cases and recent controversies involving data science ethics. Discuss data as abstraction and representations, data collection, consent and privacy, bias in predictive modeling, and algorithms as actors and feedback loops. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Business Analytics
Undergraduate
Businesses are generating and collecting a massive amount of data from both business transactions and user generated data. Students who graduate with a degree in Business Analytics will be prepared to leverage statistical analysis, data mining, natural language processing, optimization, and machine learning to provide practical recommendations to improve business results in a wide variety of areas, including finance, marketing and supply chain management. They will also understand the ethical issues surrounding the design, development, and use of these technologies.