PADM 6636 - Public Fiscal Analytics

Pre-requisite: PADM 6611 . This course explores large-scale, data-intensive technologies, including enterprise resource planning and database management systems, adapted to the public sector as well as to the Geographic Information System (GIS). We will discuss the characteristics and architectural challenges surrounding scalable databases, how these databases are constructed, and explore analytic and predictive methods of data analysis. This course explores the application of large-scale, data-intensive, database technologies in governmental units. Students will learn the characteristics and architectural challenges surrounding scalable databases, how these databases are constructed, and explore geo-visualization techniques of data processed using public fiscal analytics. Students will learn about modeling and prediction using big data analytic techniques.
3 credit hours.