Postgraduate Studies in Big Data & Analytics in Business and Management (Leuven)

This programme will foremost provide participants with a thorough understanding of big data and analytics techniques. In addition, participants will be trained to reason about practical applications of these techniques and how their deployment can create business value. Finally, the programme will detail how to think critically about the different ways to set up and run big data and analytics from an organizational perspective. The interdisciplinary focus on technical skills combined with an understanding of how technology can be applied practically is the Unique Selling Point of this programme.
After completion of the programme, participants know about the latest developments in the field big data and analytics and particularly about their use and deployment in business applications. More specifically, they are able to:
* Describe the characteristics of different analytical techniques and explain why certain techniques are more or less appropriate for a given application;
* Evaluating analytical models on the basis of well-known evaluation metrics;
* Assess the added value of the use of analytical models and support this assessment with concrete arguments so as to be able to build a business case for a particular application;