Marketing Analytics & Visualizations

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Integrate, prepare, and manage quantitative data.
• Critically analyse, interpret, organise and visualize quantitative data in synthetic visuals.
• Identify suitable approaches for incorporating insights into marketing tasks.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicate ideas and arguments in various formats.
• Use specified software packages to conduct the marketing analytics techniques.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• How various analytical and visualization techniques can be used to uncover the potential of data to gain actionable insights and support marketing decisions.

The topics covered include:

• Core descriptive statistics, standard distributions, hypothesis testing
• Evaluation of data and usage;
• Presentation of data: Graphics, tables, synthetic visuals
• The use of analytical software packages to conduct marketing analysis and visualizations.

Teaching and learning methods

The focus of this module will be to actively engage you in the subject matter through guided self-discovery of the material. Lectures will be used to set the agenda and further develop the material specified in the reading list and in other sources recommended throughout the semester.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Cortinhas, C. and Black, K. (2012). Statistics for Business and Economics. Wiley.

Knapp, Herschel (2017). Introductory Statistics using SPSS. Sage.

Winston, W. L (2014). Marketing Analytics: Data-Driven Techniques with Microsoft Excel. Somerset: J Wiley and Sons.

Jelen, Bill, and Alexander, M. (2016). Excel 2016 Pivot Table Data Crunching. Pearson Education.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External