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COIT20253 Business Intelligence using Big Data
Business Intelligence using Big Data
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General Information

Overview

Big data is a popular term used to describe the exponential growth and availability of structured and unstructured data. In this unit, you will explore big data within the context of business intelligence. In this unit, you will learn concepts of business intelligence, alignment of big data to business intelligence and how big data technologies can be used in building organisational business intelligence. You will learn how big data is changing businesses and how organisations can take advantage of big data in decision making. You will learn how organisations are integrating non-traditional unstructured data with the traditional structured enterprise data to do the business intelligence analysis. In order to understand these, you will learn big data analytical tools and technologies to help solve authentic business problems and make effective business decisions.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Level 9
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 8
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisites: COIT20250 e-Business Systems, COIT20245 Introduction to Programming and COIT20247 Database Design and Development. Anti-Requisites: If you have completed unit COIT20236 then you cannot take this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 2 - 2026

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Attendance Requirements

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Class and Assessment Overview

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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation

Feedback

Most students rated the unit as Exceptional.

Recommendation

To continue with the good practices.

Feedback from ICT Course Committee

Feedback

Aligning the unit with the latest SFIA 9 released.

Recommendation

To identify and integrate specific SFIA 9 skill categories relevant to the unit.

Feedback from Classroom Feedback

Feedback

More hands-on exercises.

Recommendation

To add tutorial exercises based on the Spark ecosystem running in Google Colab, by referencing resources such as https://praxis-qr.github.io/BDSN/ ;https://colab.research.google.com/github/pnavaro/big-data/.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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This information will be available on Monday 22 June 2026
Academic Integrity Statement

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