Analytics background and architectures -- Mathematical and statistical preliminaries -- Statistics for descriptive analytics -- Bayesian probability and inference -- Inferential statistics and predictive analytics -- Artificial intelligence for symbolic analytics -- Probabilistic graphical modeling -- Decision support and prescriptive analytics -- Time series modeling and forecasting -- Monte Carlo simulation -- Cluster analysis and segmentation -- Machine learning for analytics models -- Unstructured data and text analytics -- Semantic web -- Analytics tools -- Analytics case studies.