6.1 Understand the applications of prescriptive analytics techniques in combination with reporting and predictive analytics 6.2 Understand the basic concepts of analytical decision modeling 6.3 Understand the concepts of analytical models for selected decision problems, including linear programming and simulation models for decision support 6.4 Describe how spreadsheets can be used for analytical modeling and solutions 6.5 Explain the basic concepts of optimization and when to use them 6.6 Describe how to structure a linear programming model 6.7 Explain what is meant by sensitivity analysis, what-if analysis, and goal seeking 6.8 Understand the concepts and applications of different types of simulation 6.9 Understand potential applications of discrete event simulation
8.1 Explore some of the emerging technologies that may impact analytics, business intelligence (BI), and decision support 8.2 Describe the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) phenomenon, potential applications, and the IoT ecosystem 8.3 Describe the current and future use of cloud computing in business analytics 8.4 Describe how geospatial and location-based analytics are assisting organizations 8.5 Describe the organizational impacts of analytics applications 8.6 List and describe the major ethical and legal issues of analytics implementation 8.7 Identify key characteristics of a successful data science professional
5.1 Describe text mining and understand the need for text mining 5.2 Differentiate among text analytics, text mining, and data mining 5.3 Understand the different application areas for text mining 5.4 Know the process of carrying out a text mining project 5.5 Appreciate the different methods to introduce structure to text-based data 5.6 Describe sentiment analysis 5.7 Develop familiarity with popular applications of sentiment analysis 5.8 Learn the common methods for sentiment analysis 5.9 Become familiar with speech analytics as it relates to sentiment analysis
