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Graduate Diploma in Data Science (GD-DATASC) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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About this course
Principal Coordinator
Trevor Cohn
Principal Coordinator
Howard Bondell
Intended learning outcomes
This subject aims to provide students with:
- Exposure to a range of modern data science methods.
- The ability to apply contemporary data science techniques to practical problems.
- The ability to project manage, complete the analysis of project results and compile the project report.
- The ability to present results at a career-ready level.
- Demonstrate basic expertise in statistical modelling and inference, machine learning, and data mining.
- Demonstrate basic expertise in computational methods for machine learning, data mining, expertise in database systems.
- Integrate and apply this expertise to produce solutions for real-world problems using public and private data sources.
- Communicate findings from analyses clearly and effectively, including to an audience with a diverse background in sciences
- Demonstrate skills in the evaluation and synthesis of information from a range of sources and the ability to apply these skills to understand the international peer-reviewed scientific literature and primary research in data science and disciplines relevant to data science;
- Adapt to a rapidly evolving field.
- Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of theoretical underpinnings of algorithms in computer science
- Develop algorithms for scalable software systems using computer networks and/or databases
Generic skills
- Problem-solving skills: the ability to engage with unfamiliar problems and identify relevant solution strategies;
- Analytical skills: the ability to construct and express logical arguments and to work in abstract or general terms to increase the clarity and efficiency of analysis;
- Time management skills: the ability to meet regular deadlines while balancing competing commitments
- Programming and computing skills: the ability to use statistical computing packages and implement algorithms.
Last updated: 5 May 2024