COIT20253 - Business Intelligence using Big Data

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
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).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 35%
2. Presentation 25%
3. Project (applied) 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 96.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 53.19% response rate.

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.

Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation
Feedback
Link content to real world applications.
Recommendation
Invite guest speakers and industry experts to share their experiences and insights into how big data and business intelligence are applied in their respective fields.
Action Taken
Guest speakers were invited in Week 7.
Source: Student Unit Teaching Evaluation
Feedback
Use more examples or elaboration.
Recommendation
Include more practical cases of how big data and business intelligence are used in various industries (e.g. healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing) in the learning resources.
Action Taken
Practical examples and case studies shared through the announcement "Case studies shared: Application and Data Workflow Orchestration for the Modern Organization"
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Feedback
Most students rated the unit as Exceptional.
Recommendation
To continue with the good practices.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: 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.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: 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/.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Apply concepts and principles of big data to evaluate and explain how large volume of structured and unstructured data are managed in an organisation
  2. Analyse critically and reflect on how organisations are including non-traditional valuable data with the traditional enterprise data to do the business intelligence analysis
  3. Critically analyse and evaluate different big data technologies used for decision making in an organisation
  4. Develop big data strategy for data-centric organisations to meet client requirements
  5. Apply big data architecture, tools, and technologies for decision making and problem solving in the organisational context.

Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.

ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html

This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA. The SFIA code is included:

  • Research(RSCH)
  • Data Management (DATM)
  • Emerging Technology Monitoring (EMRG)
  • Data Analysis (DTAN)
  • Application Support (ASUP) 

  • Analytics (INAN)

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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