Introduction
Why this book?
We create a lot of material when teaching for Business Analytics, at BCIT. I’ve decided to get everything into one location, and have that location be open source.
Expect this book to expand in the near future, as I have the time and energy to expand it.
Notes are taken from my work teaching:
- BABI 9010 and BABI 9005 in the Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics
- BSYS 4001 in the AI Management stream of the IT Management program
- Assorted talks and workshops that I’ve given in my role with the CEA (Centre for Excellence in Analytics) at BCIT.
- As well as other sessional classes and guest lectures!
Work in Progress
I’ve made this book public, but it is VERY MUCH in progress – I will add to it over the term (or year).
Files
Interested in the source files and code? For now, some of this material lives in my Github, at https://github.com/amygoldlist/BusinessAnalytics . I will move it over to this book as I go!
Also, everything here (files included) are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical, 4.0
Thanks
This book was made possible with an OpenEducation BC grant, and the help of all of my colleagues and the LTC over at BCIT.
Technical Notes
Creating a book and getting it all on the internet is quite the endeavor! This is made more tricky by the fact that my notes lived in three distinct locations, with at least distinct workflows:
- Word Documents. Pressbooks lets me import these, but any images are always a bit tricky to convert. I do these by hand – it seems to take the same amount of time as fixing the automated errors, particularly if there is a lot of LaTeX, and there really is. I can’t help it.
- R scripts. I use R markdown (.Rmd files) to output these to a correct format (html_fragment if you are interested.) Many thanks to Pandoc here – it’s the best
- Jupyter Notebooks. This was a challenge! The notebooks themselves can output to html, but it worked out best
to use Quarto for conversion,(and maybe I will get Jupyter-book to work properly). Update: it works best to just use Pandoc, and I do this command line. I have an idea that somehow I will improve this in the future.
So, good luck! If you have notes, please email me at amy_goldlist@bcit.ca
