This course provides Airmen a look into the multi-disciplinary aspect of data research. Students will discuss how to apply various analytical tools and techniques to be more informed decision makes and to solve complex problems found in the exponentially expanding data collected by organizations today. Students will also go more in-depth in data exploration, data management, linear programming and optimization to build models within Excel to find or define the solution space. They will gain a basic understanding of the theoretical assumptions of these models and the abilities and limitations such models inherently provide. At the end of the course students will get an introduction to R-studio and programming in R. This is an intermediate course on data analysis tools and techniques for students familiar with Excel and limited understanding of object oriented programming.