Prof. Nikhat Fatma Mumtaz Husain Shaikh gave a guest lecture on business intelligence and analytics. She began by defining business intelligence and how analytics builds on it by using data to understand business performance and answer higher-value questions. She then discussed the three levels of analytics - descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive - and gave examples of the business payoffs that can result from building analytic models in each area. The rest of the lecture covered how to build analytic models using tools like Excel, Power BI, data mining software, simulation, and optimization. She recommended textbooks and online courses for learning more and provided examples of free tools to get started with analytics.
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