The business analytics micro-credential program trains students in business analytics and provides an overall certificate with several badges. The goal is to evaluate and acknowledge industry-relevant skills that while important but may not be fully acknowledged by the fact that a student has taken a class, especially not on a resume.

Eligibility

CU Boulder students (degree-seeking only) 

Delivery Mode

In-person


Credit Status

Includes credit and noncredit components

Academic Level

Undergraduate

Time to Completion

Months

Fee

No

Requirements

Digital Badge 1: Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)

This badge covers accessing and extracting data, removing irrelevant data, converting data types, data cleansing, code organization, sorting, removing duplicate records, filtering logic, sampling, text extraction and data replacement.

Requirements: 

  • Perform in the upper half of the business analytics class on content related to sorting, removing duplicate records, filtering logic, sampling, text extraction and data replacement.
  • Perform in the upper half of the business analytics class on project 1, the business intelligence project.
  • Pass the Alteryx core certification exam.

Digital Badge 2: Formulas of Business Analytics

This badge covers processes for using functions to build formulas including basics of expression, conditional statements, string functions, numeric functions, multi-field and multi-row functions.

Requirements: 

  • Perform in the upper half of the business analytics class on content related to functions to build formulas including basics of expression, conditional statements, string functions, numeric functions, multi-field and multi-row functions.
  • Perform in the upper half of the business analytics class on project 1, the business intelligence project.
  • Pass the Alteryx core certification exam.

Digital Badge 3: Data transformation

This badge covers all skills relevant to transforming data for reporting, including joins, unions, summarization, cross-tabulation, appends and transposes. 

Requirements: 

  • Perform in the upper half of the business analytics class on content related to transforming data for reporting, including joins, unions, summarization, cross-tabulation, appends and transposes.
  • Perform in the upper half of the business analytics class on project 1, the business intelligence project.
  • Pass the Alteryx core certification exam.

Digital Badge 4: Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)

This badge covers core knowledge related to applying and understanding machine learning, especially machine learning, for business purposes. This includes the creation, evaluation, setting thresholds, metrics and explaining models to a top management team.

Requirements: 

  • Perform in the upper half of the business analytics class on content related to machine learning.
  • Perform in the upper half of the business analytics class on project 2, the machine learning project.

Criteria

See previous text.