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The Business Intelligence and Database Systems program at Touro University is designed to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel in the dynamic field of visualizing complex data. Through a comprehensive curriculum that combines theoretical foundations with hands-on training, students gain expertise in a variety of data visualization techniques, tools, and technologies, enabling them to effectively communicate insights and narratives through compelling visual representations.
Emphasizing the development of critical thinking and analytical skills essential for navigating the ever-expanding realm of data visualization, the program prepares students for diverse career opportunities. Graduates of the program are well-equipped to pursue roles such as data visualization specialists, information designers, data analysts, and business intelligence professionals. Coursework encompasses a wide range of topics, including interactive visualization, visual analytics, and data storytelling, providing students with a solid foundation in both the technical and artistic aspects of data visualization.
By mastering the art of transforming complex data into meaningful visual representations, graduates of the Business Intelligence and Database Systems program at Touro University play a crucial role in aiding decision-making processes across various industries. Whether you aspire to make an impact in data-driven organizations, research institutions, or creative agencies, our program equips you with the expertise and tools needed to succeed. Contact us today to discover how our program can help you realize your career aspirations in this exciting and rapidly growing field.
Career options include:
• Data Analyst
• Business Intelligence Analyst
• Data Scientist
• Data Engineer
• Database Administrator
Program Requirements
4
Program
Core Courses
12 credits
+
4
Business Intelligence and Database Systems
Required Courses
12 credits
+
3
Business Intelligence and Database Systems
Elective Courses
9 credits
=
11
Program
Total Courses
33 credits
M.S. in Business Intelligence and Database Systems Core Management Courses
MSIN 605
Strategic Management of Technology
- Enterprises in many industries are driven by the need to achieve technological innovation in order to prosper or even survive. This course focuses on the strategic management of technology and innovation in firms of various types. These technology innovations can encompass software, hardware, or other forms of technology and even the very processes needed to design, develop, and manufacture the resultant technological products. Students develop an understanding of technological innovation and the issues and strategies for organizing, managing, diffusing, and protecting innovation. This broadens the horizons of students who have concentrated on technical computing and Information Technology courses and require enrichment in the area of managerial science.
3 Credits MSIN 607
Effective Oral and Written Communication for Managers
- Emphasizes the importance of good communication skills for corporate managers in the business world. This course identifies and reviews the foundations of business communication - listening, speaking, writing, and reading - and broadens students' experience by building communication skills using technologies and practical business applications. The goal of this course is for students to become confident, flexible, and resourceful communicators in the competitive intercultural global business community.
3 Credits MSIN 609
Information Technology Project Management
- This course is an introductory course that provides the fundamental principles of technology project management. In this course, students will learn how to use Project Management Best Practices to bring order to the otherwise chaotic world of information technology projects, by defining a set of guidelines and standards, and then adhering to them. The student will learn to view Project Management as a set of tools that are an integral part of business strategy. In addition, students will receive a unique perspective on the issues surrounding the management of information technology projects in various organizations.This course will provide students with a solid foundation in IT Project Management.
3 Credits MSIN 695
Capstone Course: Information Systems Research Project Seminar
- Provides students with the opportunity to plan a major research paper or project and implement it from start to finish using a combination of their conceptual, technical, and applied knowledge. As the capstone course in the program, the project developed draws on the skills and knowledge gained throughout the program. Project deliverables have deadlines staggered throughout the semester. Must be taken in last semester.
3 Credits
Business Intelligence and Database Systems Required Courses
MDAN 631
Fundamentals of Visual Data Analytics
- Data visualization is an essential storytelling tool for exploratory and explanatory analysis. This course navigates real-world business problems across different industries, focusing on iteratively deriving solutions through static and interactive dashboards. Students will gain hands-on experience with the latest cloud BI software, ingesting data and structuring relations between disparate sources. Working in agile-like weekly sprints, students will learn to identify patterns and anomalies, conduct prescriptive analyses, and effectively communicate insights to influence decision making of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
3 Credits MSIN 615
Database Management and Administration
- This course provides students with a solid foundation in database management and design concepts and related skills. The course will explore database design techniques such as Entity Relationship modeling, normalization, database modeling/design tools such as Microsoft Visio or MySQL Workbench and UML, database implementation techniques using SQL Server Express. Students will learn how to examine user requirements and design and implement a database that supports the requirements and helps enforce the business constraints. Students will utilize various techniques to identify and correct errors that exist in proposed database designs. Students will design and implement databases and use SQL to construct simple and nested queries and inner joins to retrieve and manipulate data. Students will become familiar with SQL Server Management Studio, using it to implement and populate databases and test queries written in SQL.
Prerequisite: MDAN 610 or equivalent
3 Credits MSIN 627
Multi-Dimensional Analytics and Visualization
- The course introduces the practice of managing data as corporate assets by organizations to gain competitive advantage and meet regulatory demand. The course will also describe the data management emerging profession, and skills required to perform the various data management functions for each role.
Prerequisite: MSIN 615
3 Credits MSIN 637
Principles of Data Analysis
- This course is a hands-on introduction to the field of Data Analytics where students will learn the concepts and tools needed throughout the analysis process from formulating the research question to obtaining, cleaning, and collating data to making inferences and publishing results. Students will also learn how to formulate research questions in “data terms” so that it can be analyzed and identify the limitations imposed by the available data. Students will become versed in sorting data, filtering data and creating data totals. They will learn how to use Pivot Tables. They will also master Statistical Functions, Text Functions, Database Functions, Lookup Functions, and Date and Time Functions among others. Students will be introduced to data types, control structures, functions, and debugging tools. They will learn how to acquire data, what it means to clean data by removing inconsistencies and reformat data so that it can be analyzed by statistical tools.
Corequisite: MSIN 616
3 Credits
Business Intelligence and Database Systems Elective Courses
MDAN 621
R for Data Analytics
- Students will learn about the basics and fundamentals of R programming/syntax to eventually being able to write R scripts. R will be used to solve problems related to data. Students will learn to assign variables and perform simple operations with vectors. Students will also learn about lists, matrix, arrays and data frames. To complete the basics, the course will cover conditional statements, functions, classes and debugging. Students will advance to reading and writing data in R, in either table format (CSV, Excel) or in a text file (.txt). Finally, students will cover important functions for character strings and dates in R.
3 Credits MDAN 622
Python for Data Analytics
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This course introduces the basics of the python programming environment, including fundamental python programming techniques such as lambdas, reading and manipulating csv files, and the NumPy library. The course will introduce data manipulation and cleaning techniques using the popular python pandas data science library and introduce the abstraction of the Series and DataFrame as the central data structures for data analysis, along with tutorials on how to use functions such as group by, merge, and pivot tables effectively. By the end of this course, students will be able to take tabular data, clean it, manipulate it, and run basic inferential statistical analyses.
Pre-or Corequisite: MDAN 608 & WMMN 607 or MDAN 610
3 Credits MDAN 623
Statistics for Data Analytics
- This course introduces univariate data analysis methods using statistics. Data visualization methods and practices, and an overview of sampling techniques for data collection. Specifically, this course teaches introductory statistical methods for the analysis and visualization of data and basic concepts of probability theory. Course topics include descriptive statistics, data visualization techniques, an introduction to statistical inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis testing) for decision making, linear regression models, data sampling techniques. The students will learn the statistical package SPSS to analyze data sets from real-world applications.
3 Credits MSIN 614
Data Transformation, Migration and Integration
- This course combines lectures with hands-on labs to teach students necessary skills to install, upgrade, manage & administer SQL Server instances and databases for performance, high availability &Disaster Recover. Topics covered in the class will include System Databases, Data Files, Log Files & Check Points, Memory CPU and Disk Redundancy Discussions, indexing and query optimization, Database backup and restoration, Log Shipping, Database Mirroring, Database Replication, Database Snapshots, Security, Policy Based Management, SQL Agent, Task Scheduling& Automation, Database Mail, Database Maintenance Plans, Monitoring, Alerting & Tuning, Blocking Transitions & Dedicated Administrator Connection.
Prerequisite: MSIN 615
3 Credits MSIN 616
Advanced Database Management and Data Analytics
- Building on Database Management and Administration, the course explores additional data modeling techniques, concepts of database integrity and transaction management, stored procedures, user-defined functions, database programming, query optimization, performance and tuning, and other advanced SQL topics.
Prerequisite: MSIN 615
3 Credits MSIN 633
Data Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization
- This course combines lectures with hands-on labs to help students understand transaction systems, data warehouses, fact and dimension tables, design custom columns, custom tables and create multi-dimensional data models based on a wide variety of data sources. Dashboards and widgets of varying complexities will be created using hierarchies, expressions, and functions for data analysis, visualization and decision support.
Pre- or Corequisite: MSIN 616
3 Credits MSIN 675
Professional Internship Experience
- The student will work in a professional environment, for a minimum of 480 hours over a period of at least two semesters. Students may secure an internship independently or may work with the GST Department of Career Services. Weekly logs and examples of work are required for the successful completion of the internship, and are reviewed by the Faculty Internship Coordinator, upon completion of the internship. The purpose of the internship is to provide students with practical, hands-on experience in their chosen field of expertise to complement their coursework. The Internship must be approved in advance by the program chair.
Pre- or Corequisite: Permission of the Program Chair
3 Credits MSIN 677
Advanced Data Visualization
- This course starts with an introduction to Transactional Databases vs. Data Warehouse, Data Marts, Big Data, No SQL Databases, fact and dimension tables and various tools to understand, analyze and visualize hidden information in Raw data. It combines lectures with hands on exercises and labs, using various components of Tableau and its visualization tools, to create charts, dashboards and stories containing visual presentation of data and their summaries to help make sense of huge collection of such raw data and to communicate the same to decision makers so they can quickly spot trends, see patterns and discover other pieces of information buried in such data to make day to day decisions quickly and efficiently.
Prerequisite: MSIN 627
3 Credits MSIN 678
Business Intelligence Through Data Visualization and Power BI
- This course combines lectures with hands-on labs to teach students necessary skills to connect to Various Data sources, Transform Data, Design Data Models, create, manage, and format Charts/Visuals/DashBoards using various data sources e.g. excel files, SQL Server Databases, and MS Access databases etc. of various complexities & Work with Filtering
Students will start with connecting to Datasources, transform data, design models and create simple charts and move onto designing more complex Models and charts of various types including analyzing data over time, trends analysis etc. Advanced formatting, DAX expressions and Filtering will be utilized to make charts stand out.
Prerequisite: MSIN 627
3 Credits
Any Other Elective Approved by the Dean
Business Intelligence and Database Systems Preparatory Courses
Students with insufficient background in computer science or information systems degree, will be required to complete some or all of these courses:
GCON 141
Introduction to Programming
- This course introduces students to problem solving techniques used in programming. Students will learn object-oriented and event driven programming concepts including language constructs, logical structures, file management and error trappings. Students will program in the Alice 2.3 3-D Programming Language Environment that was specifically developed to make learning programming more accessible and exciting to students. Students will learn how to create and use objects and their properties and methods, as well as how to write code for custom object methods. Students will utilize programming control structures such as loops, selection structures, methods, and classes.
3 Credits GCON 147
Computer Hardware, Software and System Security
- This course provides an introduction to the computer hardware, software, and security skills needed to meet the growing demand for entry - level information technology (IT) professionals. It covers the fundamentals of PC computer technology, networking, and security with emphasis on the software portion of the CompTIA A+ 220-802 certification examination. Students develop working knowledge of how computers operate, how to assemble computers, how to troubleshoot hardware and software issues, and implement computer system security.
3 Credits MBAN 503
Introduction to Statistics
- This course is structured to enable students to develop and increase their competence in the broad area of statistics and quantitative analysis. Each PowerPoint module will provide definition of terms, the statistics, examples of applied usage & its interpretation. External readings and audiovisual recordings of key concepts will also be required.
1 Credit MDAN 609
Introduction to Analytical Processes (Excel)
- This course will allow the student to comprehend and appreciate creating and working with excel lists. Using multiple worksheets and workbooks. Applying excel editing and web tools. Developing an excel application. Students will use tutorial lab exercises to grasp the above excel concepts.
1 Credit MDAN 610
Introduction to Database
- This course covers the database concepts that are the foundation and building blocks of sound database design and management. It explains why good database design is critical to the accurate and efficient storage and retrieval of data. The course will explore database design techniques such as database models, database modeling/design tools using Microsoft Visio. The course identifies the functions provided by a database management system to help insure the integrity of data. It teaches students how to design a database that maximizes data integrity using normalization techniques. Students will use MS Access interface to create and populate a database. It also covers the use of SQL to create and populate tables, retrieve and update data.
3 Credits MSIN 511
Technology Concepts and Essentials
- The IT Essentials (ITE) curriculum emphasizes practical experience to help students develop fundamental computer and career skills. ITE helps students prepare for entry-level career opportunities in ICT and the CompTIA A+ certification. The course also provides a learning pathway to Cisco CCNA.
1 Credit
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