Course Unit ECTS Teacher responsible external guests Proposed content
Module 1
Business Analytics: Introduction and applications
1
ECTS
João Nuno
Gonçalves
Quidgest Introduction to the curricular unit and presentation of the general operation of the training. Introduction to Business
Fundamentals, success stories and applications.
Module 2
Descriptive analysis
2
ECTS
João Nuno
Gonçalves
  Introduction to exploratory analysis
Analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics
Inferential statistics.
Pre-processing and
transformation.
Exploratory graphics.
Module 3
Predictive analysis
10
ECTS
João Nuno
Gonçalves
  Linear and non-linear models of
Classification and Regression.
Optimization of predictive models.
Evaluation of predictive models.
Modeling, forecasting and evaluation of
time series.
Module 4
Analytical
prescriptive
10
ECTS
João Nuno
Gonçalves
Quidgest Introduction to Modeling, Simulation
Optimization.
Introduction to single/multi-objective optimization:
methods and applications.
Module 5
Solving
case studies
2
ECTS
João Nuno
Gonçalves
Quidgest Resolution of various practical cases,
in which trainees will
to put into practice the
learned content.

Note: Applying for the PRR reinforces the modularity of the offers, which means that a student will only be able to take individual courses and not the whole course.


João Gonçalves

He has a doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering, a master's degree in Systems Engineering and a degree in Mathematics from the University of Minho (UMinho). He is the coordinator of the degree in Applied Data Science at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a researcher at the Center for Management and Economics Studies (CEGE) at Católica Porto Business School. He is an Invited Assistant Professor at UMinho in the areas of Operations Research and Supply Chain Management. He has held corporate positions as Senior Data Scientist at Bosch Car Multimedia and Technical Coordinator of the Data Science & Machine Learning Group of the Collaborative Laboratory for Digital Transformation (DTx). His research interests lie in the areas of Business Analytics, Statistical Learning and Time Series Forecasting in the context of Supply Chain Management.

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