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Business Intelligence Analysts

15-2051.01 Bright Outlook Bright

Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

What education do people in this job actually have?

O*NET incumbent survey (2024)
Some college / associate's 5% Bachelor's degree 68% Graduate degree 27%

How EWU courses prepare you for this work (7 of 17 O*NET tasks have course evidence)

  • Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards
  • Summarize the professional report in an oral presentation

Interpret output from statistical software correctly

  • Summarize the professional report in an oral presentation
  • Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards
  • Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards
  • Summarize the professional report in an oral presentation
  • Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards
  • Summarize the professional report in an oral presentation
  • Understand the foundation of AI
  • Devise a hypothetical research project for an AI topic of your choice

Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards

Independently research mathematical concepts

Recent regional postings for this occupation

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Where to focus your applied learning (10 taskes without course evidence yet)

These O*NET tasks don't have direct course-objective evidence in the Math BS catalog yet. Each is an opportunity to gain hands-on preparation through an applied project, MAA-sponsored partnership, elective, or internship. The Math BS applied-projects page has examples of project-driven learning that could close these kinds of gaps.

More O*NET details for this occupation (skills, knowledge, tools & technology)
Skills (42)
Basic Skills: Active Learning
Basic Skills: Active Listening
Basic Skills: Critical Thinking
Basic Skills: Learning Strategies
Basic Skills: Mathematics
Basic Skills: Monitoring
Basic Skills: Reading Comprehension
Basic Skills: Science
Basic Skills: Speaking
Basic Skills: Writing
+ 32 more on O*NET
Knowledge (6)
Administration and Management
Computers and Electronics
Customer and Personal Service
Economics and Accounting
English Language
Mathematics
Tools & technology (30)
Computer servers: Computer servers
Computer servers: Storage servers
Data base management system software: Amazon DynamoDB
Data base management system software: Apache Cassandra
Data base management system software: Apache Hadoop
Data base management system software: Apache Hive
Data base management system software: Apache Pig
Data base management system software: Apache Solr
Data base management system software: Elasticsearch
Data base management system software: MongoDB

O*NET's tools-and-technology list aggregates software encountered across the occupation's many sub-roles, so the list can be broad. Treat it as a directory of what people in this job might use, not a checklist of what every job requires.

Where this data comes from. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills, and education-incumbents survey come from the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET 30.2. Washington-state pay and employment projections come from WA Employment Security Department and the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Live job postings come from CareerOneStop, refreshed nightly from a scrape that tracks the original posting date and the date our system last saw each posting live.

How we connect courses to occupations. Course catalog descriptions and program-level learning outcomes are indexed alongside O*NET task statements. Where a course's language aligns with a task an occupation requires, we mark it as evidence of preparation. Faculty review each candidate match and either confirm or veto it; only confirmed matches surface in totals.

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