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Course Description

In a generative-AI and cloud-native environment, this project-based course takes students through the full data planning lifecycle from problem definition and pipeline design to dashboard demonstration and business model proposal.

Learning Objectives

  • Plan and execute practical workflows for collecting, storing, analyzing, and visualizing data
  • Design data-driven business models using generative AI and AutoML
  • Manage collaborative projects with ethical and governance perspectives
  • Produce portfolio-grade outputs through project demonstrations

Evaluation

Midterm
20%
Final
20%
Assignment
15%
Project
25%
Participation
10%
Attendance
10%

Weekly Schedule

Week Topic Details
1 Latest Trends in Big Data and AI Data governance, ethics, and trend reporting
2 Data Collection and Cleaning Practice Crawling and preprocessing pipeline with Python and AI APIs
3 Industrial and Public Data Case Analysis Use-case analysis with public/enterprise datasets
4 Generative AI Pipeline Design Prototype design for GPT-based data pipelines
5 Business Model Workshop Value proposition and market-fit validation
6 Project Midpoint Review Exploratory analysis, team presentation, and feedback
7 MLOps and AutoML Basics Experiment tracking and model performance metrics
8 Midterm Exam
9 Data Storytelling and Visualization Dashboard planning and visual communication design
10 Advanced Analytics ML/DL basics and hyperparameter tuning concepts
11 Project Enhancement KPI refinement and prototype completion
12 Final Project Coaching Business problem solving and BM proposal coaching
13 Project Rehearsal Demo flow and presentation quality refinement
14 Demo Day Final presentation with dashboard demonstration
15 Final Exam

Textbook

Business Data Science
Matt Taddy
Hanbit Media, 2022