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BIA 6310 - Social Justice and Responsibility in Analytics

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This course will address the significance of qualitative analysis, ethics, policy, and governance in business analytics. Topics include common ethical challenges related to data including privacy, bias, and data access, data communication and storytelling, and societal impacts of analytics. These challenges and topics will be explored through real-world cases of corporate settings, non-profits, governments, academic research, and healthcare. The course emphasizes the complexity of ethical decision-making and that trade-offs between priorities are often necessary. The course also considers how the burdens of addressing ethical concerns should be distributed among stakeholders. Students will be introduced to a range of relevant policy responses at the organizational, institutional, governmental, and international levels.