AI and Predictive Analytics

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Add to Your Professional Toolbox: Learn to Utilize AI With Predictive Analytics

This course teaches business professionals - with no prior statistics or programming background - how to direct AI tools through a complete prediction problem: framing the business question, preparing data, building and comparing models, and testing the results for accuracy and fairness. The curriculum covers both classification and regression problems using accessible, explainable methods: logistic and linear regression, alongside decision trees. Models are built using Orange Data Mining, a free, open-source visual tool where workflows are assembled by connecting components rather than by writing code.  An AI assistant serves as an analytical partner throughout — profiling data, explaining outputs, sanity-checking conclusions. Additionally, students learn how to expand a dataset rather than simply accept the one provided — joining a second internal source and incorporating external variables such as seasonality, geography or published indicators.

Course Details

Number of Units:1.0 graduate-level extension credit(s) in semester hours

Who Should Attend: This course is built for working professionals who make, influence, or answer for recurring decisions that a model could inform — and who already use AI tools in their everyday work.

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What You Will Learn

  • Translate a business question into a prediction problem - naming the target, the inputs, and the baseline any model must beat - and recognize the questions prediction cannot answer
  • Assemble the inputs for a prediction from more than one source, including external variables, and judge what each is expected to contribute
  • Distinguish predicting a discrete event from estimating a continuous value, and identify which of the two a given business question requires
  • Build, test and compare predictive models in Orange Data Mining, a free visual tool, directing an AI assistant to profile the data and interpret the results - without writing code
  • Interpret model performance - accuracy, precision, recall, and the confusion matrix for a classification, along with typical error size for regression - in terms of what each error would cost the business
  • Recognize and correct the characteristic failure modes of AI-assisted analysis, including data leakage, overfitting, and an assistant that is confidently wrong
  • Test a model for disparate impact using the four-fifths rule, and interpret the results
  • Judge which data may be placed in a third-party AI tool, substituting public, synthetic, or de-identified data where sensitive data cannot be used
  • Document and defend a model-driven decision in writing at a standard a non-technical stakeholder, an affected customer, or an auditor would accept

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Professional development courses offered by the University of San Diego’s Division of Professional & Continuing Education are taught by faculty that possess a depth and breadth of academic and real-world professional experience.

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The Professional and Continuing Education program nurtures key partnerships on the local, national, and international level. The goal is to better serve working professionals who seek to enhance or build their careers and help achieve their highest value and potential. Contact us today to learn more.

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