
Data Analytics for Business: Concepts, Methods, Visualization, and AI-Driven Decision Making
DOI:https://doi.org/10.68325/lp.book.013
About This Textbook
This book introduces the foundational concepts, practical methods, visualization techniques, and AI-driven frameworks essential for modern business analytics. It connects analytical concepts with business questions, covering descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics alongside industry tools like SQL, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, R, and Python.
Data Analytics for Business: Concepts, Methods, Visualization, and AI-Driven Decision Making is a comprehensive, industry-aligned textbook authored by Dr. Chinmaya Kumar Swain, Dr. Abhilash Ponnam, Dr. Guru Prasad, and Mr. Tulasi Ram. Designed for students and practitioners of management, commerce, and analytics, this book connects core analytical principles with real-world enterprise applications. Progressing across 21 chapters from foundational statistics and exploratory data analysis to machine learning, Big Data architectures (Hadoop, Spark, Data Lakes), and Generative AI, this book includes hands-on labs in SQL, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, R, and Python to empower evidence-based decision making.
Table of Contents (Chapters & Modules)
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Analytics
- Chapter 2: Business Decision Making Using Data
- Chapter 3: Data Types and Data Sources
- Chapter 4: Data Collection and Data Preparation
- Chapter 5: Data Analytics Lifecycle
- Chapter 6: Statistics for Business Analytics
- Chapter 7: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
- Chapter 8: Data Visualization
- Chapter 9: Descriptive Analytics
- Chapter 10: Diagnostic Analytics
- Chapter 11: Predictive Analytics
- Chapter 12: Prescriptive Analytics
- Chapter 13: SQL for Data Analytics
- Chapter 14: Excel for Business Analytics
- Chapter 15: Power BI
- Chapter 16: Tableau
- Chapter 17: R for Data Analytics
- Chapter 18: Python for Business Analytics
- Chapter 19: Big Data Analytics
- Chapter 20: Artificial Intelligence in Data Analytics
- Chapter 21: Generative AI For Data Analytics
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