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Data Science MSc

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The University of Edinburgh

Program overview

Data science is the study of the computational principles methods and systems for extracting and structuring knowledge from data and the application and use of those principles Large data sets are now generated by almost every activity in science society and commerce - ranging from molecular biology to social media from sustainable energy to health care As an MSc Data Science student you will explore how to efficiently find patterns in these vast streams of data Many research areas have tackled parts of this problem Machine learning focuses on finding patterns and making predictions from data ideas from algorithms and databases are required to build systems that scale to big data streams and separate research areas have grown around different types of unstructured data such as text images sensor data video and speech

Duration: 10

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