Course Code: DIGTR 122
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Data Science for Business Intelligence
Course Sector:
Digital Transformation and Innovation
Course Dates and Locations
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Date
Days
Location
Fees
Enrollment
01
01 - 05 Sep 2025
5 Days
Dubai, UAE
$4,250
02
03 - 07 Nov 2025
5 Days
Barcelona, Spain
$4,950
Introduction
Training course introducion / brief

Data and effective management of it is critical for any business as it helps them make decisions based on trends, statistical numbers and facts. Due to this importance of data, data science as a multi-disciplinary field developed. It utilizes scientific approaches, frameworks, algorithms, and procedures to extract insight from a massive amount of data.

This course is designed to provide participants with the essential concepts and techniques for data mining and its uses in the business applications to enable business intelligence. The course highlights topics such as data mining tools to model business problems and interesting patterns for decision support as well as several cases that discuss strategies, outcomes and impact on organizations when using data mining.

Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to

  • Effectively deploy data science and how to build your organisation capability to support this
  • Recognize the latest developments and make proactive and evidence-based business
  • decisions instead of reactive, trial and- error based ones
  • Understand what data is and create insights gathered from data solutions and all other available data sets
  • Manage the entire process of using data to make better business decisions: extraction, cleaning, understanding, modeling, and presenting.
  • Develop an organised framework to capitalise on data opportunities and maximise its immense untapped value.
  • Lead and manage a skilled team to innovate and harness the value of data in your business

Course Audience
Who is this course for, and can benefit the most
-Business and technology leaders
- Business Unit Managers
- Business Development Consultants
- General Managers / Regional Managers
- Senior and mid-level leaders
- individual leaders of all levels in the organization
- Art Director
- Marketing Consultants
- Marketing Development Manager
Course Outline
The course aims and learning outcomes

Data Visualization

  • How to use cutting-edge software to crunch large data sets into powerful and informative visualisations.
  • Transform, understand and simplify data, using it to move your organisation from
  • ‘What is data?’ to knowing why, when and how to use it for competitive advantage.
 

Introduction to Predictive Analytics

  • Simple linear regression
  • Multiple linear regression, interpretation, and basic inference
 
Predictive Modelling
  • How to use data mining and probability to forecast outcomes.
  • Identifying features that are likely to influence future results and successes using historical data
Classification
  • Predict future successes and solve problems before they occur.
 
Model Accounting and Multicollinearity
  • Extra and partial sums of squares, R-squared
  • Newfood and Quality Control cases
  • Multicollinearity
  • Quality control case
  • Residual, QQ and influence plots
 
Diagnostics and Transformations
  • Transformations, the multiplicative model, polynomials
  • Business failure and purifier cases
Categorical Predictor Variables, Interactions and Logistic Regression
  • Dummy variables
  • Interactions
  • Logistic regression
 
Model Evaluation, Selection and Regularization
  • Confusion tables, ROC curves, AUC
  • Penalized measures of fit
  • Test sets and k-fold cross validation
  • Variable subset selection
  • Ridge regression and the lasso
Midterm and Smoothing
  • In-class midterm, 80 minutes, covers chapters 3 and 4 (not 5 and 6)
  • Bin smoothers, k-nearest neighbors
  • Step functions, piecewise linear models and cubic splines
 
GAMS and Trees
  • Generalized additive models
  • CART
Bagging, Random Forests, Principal Components
  • Bagging and random forests
  • Stumps, shrubs, boosted trees as time permits
  • Principal component analysis
 
Clustering and Recommendation Systems
  • K-means and hierarchical clustering
  • Distance metrics
  • Overview of recommendation systems: popularity, user-based, item-based, SVD as time permits
  • How to develop meaningful segmentations or clusters with similarities.
  • Develop more targeted customer engagement strategies or identify similar products and build recommendation engines. 
Providers and Associations
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Boost certificate of completion
BOOST's Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC” is always given to the delegates after completing the training course, and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%, besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.
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COURSE METHODOLOGY

Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).

At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.

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