Big Data is used by some of the world’s biggest organisations, and is defined by its size, complexity and the fact that regular data processing applications are unable to handle it. This course is one of the first in the UK to address the challenges it presents, and during your first year you will study topics that include statistics, software engineering and social media. The second year focuses on subjects such as the semantics of data and interoperability strategies, and during your final year you will link your knowledge to applications such as information visualisation.

You will gain valuable skills for a career within Data Science in particular but also those relevant for a much wider range of applications such as information analysis or decision support systems. The final year unit ‘Social Professional Project Management and Ethics’ requires you to work in a team to apply current project management methodology that embraces all of these knowledge areas in an integrated way while going through the stages of planning, execution and project control. You will work as part of a team, take responsibility and make autonomous decisions that impact on the project team performance.