Duration

2 years

Starting Date

January, September

Tuition Fee

£ 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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