Dublin City University (DCU) and IBM have created a new Masters Degree programme in Computer Science with Big Data, Business Analytics and Smarter Cities.
The programme aims to help graduate students to develop critical IT skills for urban analysis, consumer behaviour, social networks, sentiment analysis, healthcare, and cyber and network security.
The Masters in Computing (Data Analytics) course content has been developed jointly by DCU and IBM to provide students with deep analytical skills to support the increasingly data-driven nature of business. The new programme will provide a variety of exclusive resources including access to real-world IBM case studies from cities and organisations around the world. It will be delivered by experts from DCU and IBM and will facilitate collaborative research projects between the two organisations.
"This new MSc programme will give students deep quantitative skills and technical expertise to apply analytics to real business problems. Cities today generate large volumes of data, and both IT managers and city leaders must understand the implications of the use of that data and how to create social and business value by extracting actionable insights from that data.
These data and analytics challenges also exist in other industries, and students with these skills will have many career opportunities," says Dr Katharine Frase, vice president and CTO, IBM Global Public Sector.
The data analytics sector, which is growing at 40% per annum worldwide, focuses on converting large amounts of raw data into valuable information through the use of statistical analysis and advanced software. The sector has been targeted for jobs growth as part of the ‘Disruptive Reforms’ in the Irish Government’s Action Plan for Jobs 2013.
"With this growth rate, there will soon be a shortage of talented analysts who can help cities and organisations work with Big Data and analysis," says Professor Brian MacCraith, President of DCU. "This new Masters programme seeks to address this skills gap and will complement existing national Big Data initiatives by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and Enterprise Ireland (EI) such as the Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research and the Insight-sponsored structured PhD in Data Analytics."
"Having previously worked together on developing a Masters major in Cloud Computing, this new DCU-IBM collaboration in Big Data will help to build the next generation of city leaders and business entrepreneurs by fostering innovation, local application of the latest technological advances and knowledge of industrial best practices in cities and organisations."
The programme is designed for those with existing computing experience and graduates in mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics and other technical or quantitative backgrounds (e.g. economics, operations research or industrial engineering). Admitted students can enrol on a full-time (one-year) or part-time (two years) basis and will take classes on DCU campus.
For details on how to apply, see here.
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