Blog V - Course Overview and Reflections
These past 8 weeks flew by and it seems crazy I'm already wrapping up this class. MIS 587 was definitely packed with information and a challenging course, but I'm glad I took it and would recommend it as an elective to anyone in the program! Definitely makes me excited to enter back into the Business Intelligence (BI) world and start applying the concepts we covered. Going into this class my view on BI was a bit skewed. One of my college internships was doing BI analysis with a tool called Cognos. So to me BI was just pulling data out of systems so that business users could access it. I couldn't have been more wrong! At the risk of over simplifying BI, I think it's easiest to understand the different sections by breaking it into the popular roles companies use on their teams: Data Architecture, Data Analysis, and Data Science. As it turns out, the different modules we covered fit with these pretty well. Module 1 covered data warehouse design. This included topics su
