Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Center
No estimations. Just direction-driving discoveries
In business, data is the green light that turns proposals into organization-wide initiatives and forecasts into more definite trends.
What gets presented as a complex plan begins as an interconnected web among customer habits, sales performance, social media activity, the stock market and campaign response. These results deliver greater detail into a company’s audience, improve resource allocation and supply chains, and heighten the response around products and services.
Artificial intelligence adds a new, often faster dimension for extracting and acting upon these insights.
Businesses, on the other hand, hear about the power of data and AI but aren’t sure where to begin or how to train their staff. That’s where the University of Florida Warrington College of Business’ Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Center enters the picture. Launched in 2021, we conduct research into best practices, discuss applications at conferences and train tomorrow’s workforce on these technologies.
Whether for guidance or upskilling, see what we’re achieving and how our discoveries drive the business world forward.
Research and thought leadership
How can organizations optimally utilize data to make decisions? What’s the most effective way to integrate AI into daily processes? Warrington’s researchers will tell you on panels and in publications.
HiPerGator
UF has a supercomputer on campus, known as HiPerGator (High Performance Computing Environment). In maintaining this resource for the wider community, our center added 1.2 gigabytes of real-world business data and expanded access to its research capabilities across Warrington’s departments.
Conferences
We’ve presented solutions for minimizing bias inherent with AI models, teaching these tools to business students and developing data-versed teams through dedicated business analytics degree programs.
NSF grants
The National Science Foundation currently funds multiple AI- and data-harnessing initiatives at UF. This support helps our center diversify our efforts to develop an AI-knowledgeable workforce in our region and beyond.
Upgrading Warrington’s capabilities
Our center collaborated with Warrington’s IT team to develop new server-based AI and machine learning hardware for building interactive web-based analytics dashboards.
Cross-disciplinary discussions
Integrating AI into curricula, research and experiential opportunities is a school-wide effort. As such, our center invites faculty from across UF to debate optimal applications for AI, its limitations and its future potential.
UF & Sport Collaborative
Warrington and the College of Health and Human Performance have partnered to determine how AI and data can streamline recruitment, player evaluation and game strategy for college athletic teams.
NVIDIA partnership
Launched in 2020, UF’s NVIDIA partnership powers our center’s efforts to investigate data and AI’s multiplying applications and expose Warrington students to these vital decision-making, performance-monitoring interfaces.
Academic programs
All Warrington students see what data is capable of — from learning the languages to visualization techniques. Yet, we’ve gone a step further and designed a handful of data- and AI-focused programs that align technical fluency with strategic operational objectives.
MS in Business Analytics
This immersive, hands-on introduction shows you all that data can do in business. You’ll understand how to manage and mine structured and unstructured types, build applications to derive meaningful insights and present your findings. Available on campus and online.
Weekend Part-time MBA in Jacksonville
It’s increasingly difficult to do business without data. This integrated study instructs you in its applications and decision-making potential alongside advanced business concepts.
MS in Information Systems and Operations Management
Data shapes all types and levels of business operations — from data science and information technology management to supply chains. This program with three distinct concentrations explores the technical- and application-based sides of data usage in tandem.
MSM with a concentration in AI
Project-based assignments prepare early-career Jacksonville professionals to move up in the business world and utilize AI along the way.
Continuing education
Connect your results-makers with the tools for accessing, understanding and extracting pertinent information from the growing amount of data out there.
Intro to AI in Business
A team of faculty in the Warrington College of Business at UF oversees successful business applications of AI methods/tools for addressing problems in finance, digital platforms, marketing and supply chain/operations. One hour, asynchronous.
Artificial Intelligence in Business
The focus is to provide insights into how AI tools/methods can be effectively leveraged to make better business decisions. Four hours, asynchronous.
Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Participants will be exposed to a variety of AI tools/methods for developing business strategies, making decisions, and uncovering deeper insights. This provides a mixture of online learning, as well as live lectures with Warrington’s world-class faculty. Fifteen hours, hybrid.
Instruction and courses
Students’ exploration doesn’t begin and end with a slideshow. Through a curriculum defined by our center’s ongoing developments, undergraduate courses cover Python, graduate students prepare to select and build strategies with AI-powered tools, and Ph.D. candidates push the boundaries of their business applications.
- AI Applications in Finance
- Auditing
- Behavioral Finance
- Blockchain and Crypto Assets
- Business Finance
- Business Process and Accounting Information Systems
- Consumer Behavior
- Cost and Managerial Accounting
- Creativity and Innovation in the Business Environment
- Data Analytics in Real Estate
- Database Management
- Debt and Money Markets
- Digital Marketing
- Equity & Capital Markets
- Federal Income Tax
- Financial Accounting and Reporting
- Financial Management
- Financial Modeling
- Foundations of Analytics and AI
- Human Resource Management
- Information System Strategies
- International Business
- Intro to Auditing
- Intro to Financial and Managerial Accounting
- Introduction to Federal Income Tax
- Leadership Launch
- Legal Environment of Business
- Marketing Management
- Organizations: Structure and Behavior
- Principles of Management
- Real Estate Analysis
- Real Estate Decision Making
- Sales (force) Management
- Statistics for Business Decisions
- Strategic Management
- AI Applications in Finance and Accounting
- AI Applications in Marketing and Operations
- Analytics Programming
- Artificial Intelligence Methods
- Business Data Presentation and Visualization
- Business Database Systems
- Business Intelligence
- Cyber and AI Governance in Business
- Data Analysis and Decision Support
- Data Analysis Skills
- Data Analytics for Accounting
- Data and Machine Learning Basics for Managers
- Data Mining for Business Intelligence
- Data Visualization
- Human Capital Analysis
- Intro to Python
- Managerial Quantitative Analysis
- Managing AI Deployment
- Managing Legal, Ethical and Business Risks in AI
- Marketing Analytics
- Programming for Business Analytics
- Supply Chain Analytics
- Web Crawling and Text Analysis
In addition, an experiential course offered in the summer involves projects sponsored by Accenture, UFIT and the Provost’s Office.
Partner with us
Eager to leverage data, upgrade your operations or bring on an AI-savvy team? The Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Center is ready to build a strategy tailored to your organization’s goals.
Support the Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Center
Support the center by making a donation online through the UF Foundation.
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Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Center
Warrington College of Business
University of Florida
1384 Union Rd
Bryan Hall 125
Phone: 352-392-2397
Email: Jim Hoover