Description

In a world of big data and fake news, learn to cut through the noise with the creative computing skills of a Data Scientist.

Our Data Science degree will open up the hidden world of data to you and give you the skills needed to turn raw data into powerful and profound patterns and stories. Every day vast amounts of data are created and collected as we go about our lives. Smart phones, the internet of things, online forms, internet shopping – they’re all tracking and recording our behaviour and creating masses of information.

The potential benefits of this information are enormous - but only if we have the ability to sort through it, analyse it and identify the processes underpinning it. Data Science is the set of methods, tools and knowledge used to unpick data and find the story behind it in reliable, robust and reproducible ways.

This is an exciting and emerging multi-disciplinary field with applications across almost every industry or aspect of life. Whether it is forecasting the spread of disease, teaching self-driving cars, predicting pedestrian flow at gigs and festivals, designing user-friendly websites, or preventing insurance fraud - data science has the answers.

Our course has a strong focus on probability and statistics, and their application to modelling and the analysis of data. You will explore content ‘hands-on’ through creative problem-solving, often exploiting powerful computational tools to perform statistical analysis, to find and visualise patterns and to assess uncertainties and unknowns.

Mathematics and computer know-how are important for Data Scientists but so is the ability to communicate, think creatively, visualise and solve problems. You will have specific training in computing, creative problem solving, communication, data analysis and entrepreneurship, equipping you for a broad range of future careers.

In the world of big data and fake news the skills of the data scientists are increasingly sought after. This course will enable you to interpret data sets, use powerful technology to answer important questions and, most importantly, to communicate your insights, and help people and policy makers to cut through the noise.