{"id":6277,"date":"2018-08-06T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/students\/?page_id=6277"},"modified":"2018-08-06T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:00:27","slug":"msc-data-science-2-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/students-archive\/2018-19\/cs\/pg-programmes\/msc-data-science-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"MSc Data Science (2 Years)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Programme Director:<\/strong> Alasdair Gray<\/a><\/p>\n

Programme Code: F2D4-TDS<\/p>\n

This programme is available in\u00a0 Edinburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Programme Structure and Progression Rules<\/a> for your own degree programme<\/p>\n

Computer Science Postgraduate\u00a0Handbook<\/a><\/p>\n

Programme Structure<\/h3>\n

Year 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Semester 1 (Mandatory)<\/strong><\/td>\nSemester 2 (Mandatory)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F21DF Database and Information Systems<\/a><\/td>\nF20NA Network Applications<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F21SF Software Engineering Foundations<\/a><\/td>\nF21AS Advanced Software Engineering<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F29AI Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Semester 1 (Optional – choose 1)<\/strong><\/td>\nSemester 2 (Optional – choose 2)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C69RP Research Preparation in English 1<\/a><\/td>\nC69RQ Research Preparation in English 2<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0F29DC Data Communications and Networking<\/a><\/td>\nF20AD Advanced Interaction Design<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F29KM Knowledge Management<\/a><\/td>\nF29OC Operating Systems and Concurrency<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0F29SS Sociotechnical and Soft Systems<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Year 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Semester 1 (Mandatory)<\/strong><\/td>\nSemester 2 (Mandatory)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F21DL Data Mining and Machine Learning<\/a><\/td>\nF21BD Big Data Management<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0F21SA Statistical Modelling and Analysis<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0F21RP Research Methods and Project Planning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Semester 1 (Optional – choose 2)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nSemester 2 (Optional – choose 3)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F21BC Biologically Inspired Computation<\/a><\/td>\nF21CA Conversational Agents and Spoken Language Processing<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F21CN Computer Network Security<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0F21DE Digital and Knowledge Economy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F21DV Data Visualisation and Analytics<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0F21DP Distributed and Parallel Technologies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F21SC Industrial Programming<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Semester 3:<\/strong> F21MP Masters Project and Dissertation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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