Course overview
This course allows students to develop hands-on experience in constructing prediction models to assist business decision-making. Both traditional econometric models and emerging AI methods will be utilized. The course will also focus on representing data that appeals to the human visual-perceptual system. This includes utilising visual analytics tools to explore and analyse complex data sets using multivariate, text-based, geospatial, network, and graph-based data.
Course learning outcomes
- Use prediction models to solve forecasting queries.
- Use visual methods to present complex data relationships.
- Utilise state-of-the-art statistical packages for managing and presenting data.
- Critically benchmark and compare different prediction models.