This course focuses on business intelligence as an information technology approach to data collection and data analysis to support a wide variety of management tasks, from performance evaluation to trend spotting and policymaking. Students learn analytical components and technologies used to create dashboards and scorecards, data/text/Web mining methods for trend and sentiment analysis, and artificial intelligence techniques used to develop intelligent systems for decision support. Spring odd years. Prerequisite: must be a junior or senior or have permission from the instructor.