NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY
NEU COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS DATA
ANALYTICS AND PROGRAMMING
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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LECTURER
PHAM THAO (PHD)
Senior Lecture
0966 986 689
[email protected] COURSE OUTLINE
This course provides foundational knowledge in business data analysis and
programming, covering the data lifecycle collection, storage, processing, and analysis
common data structures (tabular and relational), and essential tools for business
analytics: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Python.
Students will learn to work with data in Excel by managing workbooks, worksheets,
cells, and formatting; writing formulas and functions; performing lookup operations;
creating PivotTables and PivotCharts; and collaborating in shared environments…
The course also introduces database design and querying in Microsoft Access, where
students will create tables and retrieve and manipulate data using SQL commands
such as SELECT, JOIN, and UNION…
COURSE OUTLINE
In addition, students will study core programming concepts in Python, including
variables, lists, control structures (if…else, for, while), functions, file handling, and
essential libraries for data analysis…
Students will gain hands-on experience in data acquisition and preparation cleaning,
transforming, summarizing, visualizing, and basic forecasting. Also, design and query
relational databases and build actionable reports and dashboards.
All learning is grounded in realistic business datasets sales, customer, marketing,
and operations with financial and accounting statements used as one applied use case
throughout the course
SYLLABUS
Chapter 1: Fundamental of information technology
Chapter 2: Microsoft Excel
Chapter 3: Microsoft Access
Chapter 4: Programming with Python
BOOKS
ASSESSMENT & GRADING POLICY
Class attendance: students must attend at least 80% number of classes.
Grade:
Discussion in the class: 10% of the final grade
Midterm exam 1: 20% of the final grade
Midterm exam 2: 20% of the final grade
Final exam: 50% of the final grade
COURSE METHODOLOGY
Course Methodology
1. Class discussions
2. Lectures
3. Demonstrations
4. Multimedia Presentations
5. Readings
