CAS 840: Audience Analytics

Course Description

This course will cover basic concepts of digital analytics and actual use of live data to generate consumer insights on major aspects of a website or mobile app, such as user profiles, traffic sources, navigation patterns, conversion ratios and path to purchase. It will also cover how to interpret analytics and put it into a strategic plan. 

Learning Objectives

  1. Introduce basic concepts, processes and uses of media analytics. 

  1. Explore the rise and characteristics of big data; data acquisition about audiences, media consumption and response to advertising and news.

  1. Sources of commercial and news data; overview and experiment with some of the popular analytics platforms and tools for advertising and news.

  1. Data analytics for consumer/reader/user insights.

  1. Overview user privacy and ethics issues of media analytics.