Data analytics is a growing area within today’s job market with employers increasingly looking for graduates with analytical skills and the ability to understand ‘Big Data’. This course gives you a foundation of knowledge in Business Data Analytics and helps develop your practical abilities to extract, analyse and report on data to support organisational decision-making. Companies from a wide range of industries are collecting masses of data and are starting to compete on their ability to make use of that data, this is where business data analytic graduates are needed. Analysing data can help businesses solve problems and is highly sought after in industries such as finance, health, business, and marketing. The ability to analyse and interpret data can give businesses a competitive edge by making informed decisions. ‘Big Data’ is changing business and the economy, by studying Business Data Analytics at Bangor University you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to analyse ‘Big Data’ in a variety of business contexts. You’ll learn valuable techniques used by data analysts and develop skills with a variety of tools, algorithms, and models. This course prepares you to become a strategic manager of data, using core managerial theories paired with practical analytical skills to be able to uncover trends, patterns and support organisational decision-making. There is opportunity to develop and advance your skills through real-life practical projects applying academic knowledge and research skills to address business and organisational issues. On this course you’ll learn how to use innovative coding packages used by data scientists, focusing on writing code to solve business problems and real workplace challenges. You’ll gain hands-on practical experience and become familiar with prominent issues in data security, data management and ethics. Students will be equipped to articulate outputs of data scientists and deliver against these expectations. A particular focus will be given to the tools needed to model, store, clean, manipulate, and ultimately extract information from datasets.