Consultancy Project for Data Science

Introduction

This course will give students a sense of how to solve a problem for a concrete company or public entity. Students will experience first-hand how to solve a concrete business problem in groups acting as consultants. The assignments will depend on the problem at hand, but studnets can expect to use several of their skills from other courses, but with a strong focus on problem solving for a client.

Course content

The student groups are presented with data and a real problem from a concrete company or public entity. The data will be of a structured/semi structured format, and the inherent business problem will be roughly outlined. The students spend a total of 5 weeks applying various methods/tools to analyse the data in order to outline a suggested course of action for the business in question. The students provide a written report for evaluation.

During the course students will meet with individuals from consultancy companies sharing their insights into business analytic problem solving.

- Scoping a problem

- Analysing a business related problem using logic trees, decision trees, MECE, etc.

- Presenting the findings/solution/recommendation to a client