95029 - PRINCIPI DI BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students master the techniques to manage corporate data. They will understand how to join tables, create simple reports including KPI calculations and basic office automations.

Course contents

Introduction to corporate data management.

Data management in MS Excel through functions, pivoting, vlookup, primary keys, calculated fields, pivoting, pivot charting.

Data Management in MS Access through queries and macros.

Introduction to DAX for MS Excel Power Pivot.

Readings/Bibliography

Collie, Singh / Power Pivot and Power BI: The Excel User's Guide to DAX, Power Query, Power BI & Power Pivot in Excel 2010-2016, Holy Macro! Books, 2016 (2nd edition) - chapters 1 to 7.

Jelen, Alexander / Pivot Table Data Crunching Excel 2016, Que Publishing, 2015 (2nd edition).

Teaching methods

Lectures and practical applications in laboratory.

Important note: up to 20 Erasmus students can be accepted, the criteria will be "first come, first served".

COVID update:

Lectures take place both on Microsoft Teams, at the online lectures link, and in class (simultaneously).

Students attending via Teams are supposed to connect in time to the lectures and are responsible of the following:

• Having a 64-bit computer firmly connected to the power network and (possibly via cable) to the Internet with a working camera and a working microphone;
• Having 64-bit Microsoft Windows installed and running - in case of a Mac, see here possible solutions to install Windows on Mac computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuAVOpO7yFc&t=77s

  https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-to-run-windows-on-a-mac

• Having 64-bit Microsoft Office installed (Unibo provides a free copy to its students, to get it they are required to connect to www.office.com and login with their Unibo credentials, then download the 64-bit WINDOWS Microsoft Office, NOT the Mac one) - Excel and Access - and Power Pivot activated and running.

Assessment methods

The course mark is numeric.

The following information may change, based on the decisions of the University based on the COVID situation.

Practical test at the PC on MS Excel Pivots and Power Pivots and MS Access queries, plus a few theory open questions.

COVID update:

Final tests take place on Microsoft Teams, the link will be automatically sent by mail to the students that applied on Almaesami.

Students are supposed to connect 15 minutes before the official start, for identification and troublshooting, and are responsible of the following:

• Having a 64-bit computer firmly connected to the power network and (possibily via cable) to the Internet with a working camera and a working microphone (also, an ID showing a picture must be at hand, to be identified);
• Having 64-bit Microsoft Windows installed and running - in case of a Mac, see here possible solutions to install Windows on Mac computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuAVOpO7yFc&t=77s

  https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-to-run-windows-on-a-mac

• Having 64-bit Microsoft Office installed (Unibo provides a free copy to its students, to get it students are required to connect to www.office.com and login with their Unibo credentials, then download the 64-bit WINDOWS Microsoft Office, NOT the Mac one) - Excel and Access - and Power Pivot activated and running;
• Having all the above mentioned softwares, plus a tool to convert a word into a pdf (PDFCreator can be downloaded for free here: https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download) ready to work, running and tested;
  
• Applying in time on AlmaEsami to book the final test (no students will be accepted if out of the list, unless a specific agreement has been taken, with specified reasons).

When the application deadline on AlmaEsami is met, the Professor will send a mail to all the students that applied on AlmaEsami for that test date, sharing a folder where the datasets and the test files will be available, plus additional instructions, if needed. Students will have to check themselves their ability to upload and download files from that shared folder and inform the Professor with a mail in case something is wrong, so that issues are solved BEFORE the date of the test.

Teaching tools

Blackboard, slides, PCs.

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Bergamaschi