DECISION 617
Information Management
Salman Azhar
Description from DukeHub
Business intelligence (BI) tools allow a PC user to manage large amounts of data: Writing queries, gathering data from multiple sources, creating visualizations, and generating reports and dashboards. Information Management focuses on BI tools and their growing capabilities. The course is organized around data extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) operations as well as small system building, automation, visualization, and effective presentation. The student completes practical tasks and projects that illustrate the features and functions of Excel and Tableau software. The only prerequisite is familiarity with Excel. This course is for Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA students.
Skills
- data and statisticsAI review: "data extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) operations"
AI-resilient: 0 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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