Data Science and Business Analytics

Overview

Using sophisticated analytics techniques, including social network visualisation and sentiment analysis, and professional software, including R tidyverse, Python, C# and SQL/NoSQL, studying this MSc Data Science and Business Analytics programme offered at University of Plymouth , you gain the skills and knowledge to transform data into commercial value and boost your employability.

Key Features:

• Equips applicants from all undergraduate degrees with broad professional competence in one of the world economy’s most sought-after postgraduate subject areas.
• Offers an equal number of taught credits in the three areas of analytics, computer science and business, with a wide choice of available business modules.
• Provides a flexible individual project in one or more of the three taught areas supervised by world-leading subject experts.
• Establishes high proficiency in the use and application of state-ofthe-art programming languages including R, Python, C#, SQL and NoSQL.

• Benefits from easy access to cutting-edge specialist labs and next-generation software and hardware on a single campus. You may access facilities such as our NVIDIA seed-funded GPU Research Centre and our High-Performance Computing Centre.

• Develops modern analytics expertise for obtaining business, scientific and social insights from big data sources and social media such as Twitter.

• Enjoy research-led teaching from leading academics with world-renowned expertise in data science, data analytics, statistics, computer science and business.

• Offers a range of general and merit-based postgraduate scholarships for local and international students.

Careers with this subject:

You are in a prime position to pursue a wide variety of prestigious and extremely well-rewarded positions, which include, but are not restricted to: data analyst and data manager, research and business analyst, social media and business strategist, data scientist and data engineer.