Why Business Analytics?
In 2015, demand for analytics expertise across a range of occupations saw significant growth. According to Forbes, the median salary for professionals with big data expertise is $103,000 a year.
How Analytics Impacts Business Decisions
Analytics is the scientific process of harnessing analytic techniques and technologies to transform raw data into useful information for better business decisions. How are data analysts different from business analysts?
Study Business Analytics
Build synergistic partnerships with the business community, interact with corporate sponsors who serve as advisors for the CBIA program. Gain a working knowledge and hone your skills in business analytics by enrolling in the MSBA-BA program.
Business Analytics: Meeting the need for talent
A recent article in Pamplin Magazine about CBIA indicates"There’s a significant shortage of talent in the data and business analytics arena. Pamplin’s business analytics concentration gives students a solid education in both data analytics and business. This is how our master’s program is dramatically different from analytics programs in engineering, computer science, and statistics.” -Linda Oldham, executive director of Pamplin’s Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics (CBIA)
From Undergrad Hackathon to Startup Accelerator
22-year-old Jonathan Briganti discusses his year-old company, Digitally Enhanced Screening Applications. DESA is a health analytics and telehealth platform that collects real-time data through screening assessments to improve patient care. The original concept was birthed from a hackathon in 2016 when Briganti was an undergrad neuroscience major at Virginia Tech. Briganti is now a graduate student in the M.S.B.A Business Analytics program at Pamplin's Center for Business Intelligence & Analytics. He has teamed up with RAMP, a local Roanoke-Blacksburg startup Accelerator. Read more about the RAMP "Demo Day" where Briganti gave his recent presentation.
Congratulations to our Appjam Winners!
First Place Winners!
Team Holla Health
Michelle Fultz
John Brabender
Alex Fabrizio
Zachary Kemp
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Second Place Winners!
Team Nurselense
Siddarth Ponnala
Vineeth Koodali-Edam
Tianzi Wang
Wenyan Huang
Third Place Winners!
Team Holoimage
Handosa Mohamed
Tom Liu
Yelik Murat
Faculty Awards
Congratulations to Zheng Xiang, Qianzhou Du, Yufeng Ma, and Dr. Weiguo Fan for winning the best research paper award for "Assessing reliability of social media data: Lessons from mining trip advisor hotel reviews."
Faculty Research
Healthy Predictions? Questions for Data Analytics in Healthcare
Janine S. Hiller
American Business Law Journal
Volume 53, Issue 2, pages 251-314, Summer 2016
Predicting Vehicle Recalls with User-Generated Contents: A Text Mining Approach
X. Zhang, S. Niu, D. Zhang, G.A. Wang, W. Fan (2015).
Intelligence and Security Informatics,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 9074, pp 41-50
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18455-5_3
An Integrated Text Analytic Framework for Product Defect Discovery
Production & Operations Management Published online 3 Nov 2014.
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12303
5-year ISI impact factor (2013): 2.378.
Production and Operations Management is among Business Week’s 20 Premier Journals and among Financial Times Research’s 45 Premier Journals.
Academic Resources
How are Virginia Tech students and faculty benefiting from Watson Analytics software?
The Quality Analytics Consortium (QAC) is an industrial affiliate program that synergistically connects organizations with leading business analytics research faculty and students within the Pamplin College of Business.
Deloitte University Press publishes original articles, reports, and periodicals that provide insights for businesses, the public sector, and NGOs.