Big Data skills are in high demand and they attract high salaries. If you want to become a data scientist, this is the course for you.
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Duration
2 years
Starting Date
January, September
TuitionFee
£ 21,845
Location
Online
About The Course
The MSc Big Data (Online) from University of Stirling is a taught advanced Masters degree covering coding skills, the technology of Big Data and the science of data analytics.
This is a 100% online course which gives you the opportunity to study in a way that suits your personal and professional needs. A combination of video lectures, live sessions and online materials are used to teach this course enabling you to access them whenever is the right time for you.
Scotland is a growing and dynamic country with an exciting future at the heart of the data science revolution. £661 million invested in vision of turning capital city into the ‘Data Capital of Europe’ (Source: Scottish Development International).
Course objectives
On successful completion of this programme, you should be able to demonstrate:
an understanding of the issues of scalability of databases, data analysis, and search
the ability to choose the right solution for a commercial task involving big data, including databases, architectures and cloud services
an understanding of the analysis of big data including methods to visualise and automatically learn from vast quantities of data
the programming skills to build simple solutions using big data technologies such as MapReduce and scripting for NoSQL, and the ability to write parallel algorithms for multi-processor execution
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