
Welcome to ISM 6405 Advanced Business Analytics.
This course provides graduate students with an advanced, hands-on foundation in business analytics methods, tools, and strategic applications. Students will develop mastery in descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics while simultaneously grappling with the profound ways that generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and AI-powered agents are restructuring every layer of the analytics pipeline.
1Course Content¶
Predictive modeling, classification, clustering.
NLP, scraping, sentiment analysis.
Dashboards, charting, storytelling + Midterm Activity (building a business with analytics).
How AI has disrupted traditional analytics workflows.
Autonomous agents, multi-agent systems in business.
Conversational AI, voice interfaces for data.
Natural language programming, code generation via LLMs.
Future trends + Final Project (presentation pitch).
Answers to all chapter quizzes.
Course grading breakdown.