BUAN4321 - Business Data Engineering

BUAN 4321 Business Data Engineering (3 semester credit hours) Architecture and orchestration of data pipelines for cleansing, wrangling, transforming, and integrating complex structured and unstructured datasets to support analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Emphasis on data quality, scalability, and efficiency through distributed processing and automation. Exploration of open-source frameworks such as Python (Pandas, PySpark), Apache Airflow, and OpenRefine, combined with cloud-native platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for large-scale storage, transformation, and pipeline management. Focus on preparing enterprise-grade data for advanced analytical and AI applications in business contexts. Prerequisite: BUAN 4320 or ITSS 4300. Corequisite: BUAN 4381 or ITSS 4381. (3-0) Y