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IN2502: BIG DATA IN BUSINESS AND FINANCE (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:03


Course Overview

This course will provide an introduction to data analytics and machine learning (often summarised as Big Data) and its applications in international business. The course will explore recent trends in green finance and FINTECH, which are based on data analytics and recent advances in machine learning.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study Yes
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Weihao Han

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course will provide an introduction to Python, which has become the dominant general-purpose programming language in data analytics and machine learning. To be clear, students are not expected to have any prior knowledge of Python or any other programming language.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Group Project

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
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Students have the chance to develop their own Python code and demonstrate its application in data analytics and machine learning.

Learning Outcomes
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Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
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Topics include applications of data analytics and machine learning, green finance and FINTECH (word limit: 2000).

Word Count 2000
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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

Essay

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2,000 words

Word Count 2000
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