This course is designed to prepare you for entry to the multidisciplinary predictive data analytics profession, in which many operations are automated and controlled remotely. It will provide you with an in-depth background to predictive analytics and the use of computing, including basic concepts of data analysis, computing and visualisation, as well as in-depth understandings on data security, data mining and business applications. Why study Graduate Diploma in Predictive Analytics Data analytics is used to analyse data in order to draw conclusions - whereas predictive analytics is a newly emerging field that allows us to utilise this data in order to predict future outcomes, allowing companies to make better informed decisions and execute efficient strategies on disruptive technologies. Predictive analytics can be applied to many fields of interest, from resource operations engineering, asset management and productivity, and finance and investment, to actuarial science and health economics.