This course is offered in the MIS concentration of the MBA program in summers only. The goal of the course to to develop an understanding of business analytics, including both the approaches and algorithms as well as how this is to be used to develop a competitive advantage. We use the following book that was written for MBA students:

Title: Data Science for Business
Author: Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett
O’Reilly, First Edition, 2013, 978-1-449-36132-7

You also have to use the Weka data mining software and apply it to your own data set for your project. The software can be found here: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/