Data Science, Computing Sciences and Electrical Engineering

Data science combines computer science, mathematics, and statistics with modern methods like machine learning, AI, and data engineering. It gives us the tools to turn massive, messy datasets into knowledge, predictions, and practical solutions. From robots and medicine to culture, society, and the economy, it is data science that helps us understand complex systems and shape the future.

Experts in large-scale data analysis are urgently needed to tackle today’s complex quantitative challenges. These include: 

• automated understanding of text documents, conversations, and social media content
• building intelligent search engines
• uncovering data-driven insights into society, the economy, and global culture
• developing medical and biological applications
• enabling autonomous systems such as self-driving cars and robots.

Data Science – one of the three focuses on Big Data

You can choose from three related specialisations that involve analysis, modelling, prediction and computation with big data: 

• the Data Science (MSc) specialisation
• the Statistical Data Analytics (MSc) specialisation
• the Signal Processing and Machine Learning (MSc Tech) specialisation

The Data Science and Statistical Data Analytics specialisations focus on computational and statistical algorithms for data mining and machine learning. Both specialisations include similar topics, but Data Science places more emphasis on algorithmic and computational aspects of data science and artificial intelligence. Signal Processing and Machine Learning focuses on developing accurate predictive machine learning models.

The Data Science specialisation focuses on the algorithmic and computational foundations of data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. You will study methods ranging from probabilistic modelling and efficient data mining algorithms to advanced deep learning with neural networks and network analysis. In addition to mastering these techniques, you will also learn to interpret results critically and present them effectively to decision-makers through clear summaries and visualisations.

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Career Opportunities with a Degree in Data Science

As a graduate you will have knowledge and skills for data science, data analytics, statistical modelling and complex systems research, with an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological ability to understand the overall data science process. Such experts can be employed in research centres and universities, data science consultancy firms, as in-house analysts in companies producing big data, and in companies and organisations that gather and analyse public and private data, including government agencies, journalism, insurance, law enforcement, and finance, as well as in public and private academic institutions.

Data Science (MSc) is one of the specialisations in the Master’s Programme in Computing Sciences and Electrical Engineering.