The 3rd Annual International Conference on Data Science and Business Analytics, Galatasaray University, İstanbul, Türkiye, 11 - 12 Kasım 2019, cilt.1
Undergraduate and graduate programs conducted
with the names of Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Big Data Analytics and
Business Intelligence have become one of the most discussed topics both in
academia and in the market novadays. This current discussion is due to the
increasing importance of the management and analysis of Big Data, which has
emerged as a result of developments in Information Technology and science. In
order to meet the needs of both academy and the companies about how to take
advantage of Big Data, many universities in Europe and USA have established
analytics related graduate programs. This paper investigates recent analytics
related programs in Turkey and determines whether these programs can meet the
needs and demands of the companies by considering the literature on analytics
education and assessing a maturity score based on the offered analytics related
classes.