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MASTER IN DATA
SCIENCE
“In a fast changing
environment of
worldwide access to
higher education, a
Birchwood University
degree continues to
offer a guarantee of
quality, value and
intellectual rigour.”
Dr. Ramesh Sinanan
President
Birchwood University
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Student-faculty ratio
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MASTER IN
DATA SCIENCE
Data is becoming the most important asset of data-driven enterprises and
plays a pivotal role in tackling the challenges of tomorrow. From the
optimisation of exis- ting production lines to the creation of new business
models, data-driven decisions are at the center of digital businesses.
Degree
Masters
Career Tracks
Data Science Specialist
Data Engineer
Technical Project Lead
Business Analyst
Study model
100% online including a virtual campus with digital course
material
Fees
$11,700.00 (scholarships available)
10
CURRICULUM (36 CREDITS FULL-TIME)
Data Science: Data Science Roadmap
A program that fits your desires:
The Data Science Master program gives you the Course Title Credit Hours
possibility to achieve your Master's degree after just
one year.
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Upon completion of the program, students will: Python Programming 4 Credits
Data Base Management System 4 Credits
Apply the necessary skills to communicate R Programming 4 Credits
effectively, thoughtfully, and compassionately Exploratory Data Analysis 4 Credits
within the global Analytics field. Machine Learning 4 Credits
Demonstrate the skills to work in multicultural Master Thesis & Colloquium 4 Credits
organizations within a globalized society.
R Programming
GETTING STARTED WITH R AND R STUDIO
Introduction History of R and S, R Graphical User Interfaces, Installing R and R Studio (Windows), The First Look at
the Functions in R:- functions for reading and writing data. Saving the R Script File
BASIC DATA TYPES IN R
Numeric, Character and Logical Data Types, class () and type of () function to examine the characteristics of a given
variable. Function to test the variables and coerce a variable into a specific type, Simple Mathematical Operations.
PROGRAMMING WITH R
Control structures and functions:- Sample programs, loop functions and the debugging tools in R, Introduction to
functions, Examples of functions
VARIOUS DATA STRUCTURES IN R
Vectors, Arrays and Matrices:- matrix operations: addition, subtraction, and multiplication, transpose and inverse
matrix functions. Lists, Data frames and Factors. Performing math and simulations.
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS USING R
Measurement of Central Tendency – Mean, Median and Mode (Using R) Measurement of Variation - Range, IQR
and Standard Deviation (Using R) Descriptive Statistics Using psych Package
DATA VISUALIZATION
Visualization Before Analysis, Dirty Data: remove null values from a dataset. Visualizing a Single Variable: dot chart
and bar plot, histogram and density plot, Examining Multiple Variables: dot chart and bar plot, Box and Whisker
Plot, Hexbinplot for Large Data sets.
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
R Functions for Normal Distribution - rnorm, pnorm, qnorm and dnorm R Functions for Binomial Distribution -
rbinom, pbinom, qbinom and dbinom R Functions for Poisson Distribution - rpois, ppois, qpois and dpois
Machine Learning
Supervised Learning - Regression
Introduction To Machine Learning, Introduction To Regression, Linear Regression- A Brief Introduction, Metrics of
Model performance, How To Divide the Data For Training & Testing?, Training & Testing Of Model, Using R^2 to Check
the Accuracy of Model, Using the adjusted R^2 to compare model with different number of independent variables,
Feature selection, Forward and backward selection, Parameter tuning and Model evaluation, Data transformations
and Normalization, Log transformation of dependent and independent variables, Dealing with categorical
independent variables, One hot encoding vs dummy variable, Introduction To Logistic Regression, The sigmoid
function and odds ratio, The concept of logit, The failure of OLS in estimating parameters for a logistic regression,
Introduction to the concept of Maximum likelihood estimation, Advantages of the maximum likelihood approach,
Case study on Linear & Logistic Regression
Supervised Learning - Classification
Introduction To Classification, Types of Classification, Binary classification vs Multi class classification, Introduction
To Decision trees – Decision trees - nodes and splits. Working of the Decision tree algorithm. Importance of Entropy
and Gini index. Manually calculating entropy using Gini formula and working out how to split decision nodes How To
Evaluate Decision Tree models. Accuracy metrics – precision, recall and confusion matrix, Interpretation for accuracy
metric. Building a a robust decision tree model. k-fold cross validation. CART - Extending decision trees to regressing
problems. Advantages of using CART. The Bayes theorem. Prior probability. The Gaussian NAÏVE’S BAYES Classifier.
What are Assumptions of the Naive Bayes Classifier. Evaluating the model - Precision, Recall, Accuracy metrics and
k-fold cross validation ROC Curve and AUC Extending Bayesian Classification
Unsupervised Learning
Dimensionality reduction and clustering. Clustering algorithms. The different approaches to clustering – Hierarchical
and K means clustering. Hierarchical clustering - The concept of agglomerative and divisive clustering.
Agglomerative Clustering – Working of the basic algorithms. Distance matrix - Interpreting dendograms. Choosing
the threshold to determine the optimum number of clusters. Case Study on Agglomerative clustering The K-means
algorithm. Measures of distance – Euclidean, Manhattan and Minowski distance. The concept of within cluster sums
of squares. Using the elbow plot to select optimum number of cluster’s. Case study on k-means clustering.
Comparison of k means and agglomerative approaches to clustering. Noise in the data and dimensional reduction.
Capturing Variance - The concept of a principal components. Assumptions in using PCA. The working of the PCA
algorithm. Eigen vectors and orthogonality of principal components. What is complexity curve? Advantages of using PCA.
Build a model using Principal components and comparing with normal model. What is the difference? Putting it all
together. The relationship between unsupervised and supervised learning. Case study on Dimensionality reduction
followed by a supervised learning model. Case study on Clustering followed by classification model.
Artificial Intelligence
Time Series Forecasting
Regression vs Time Series, Examples of Time Series data, Trend, Seasonality, Noise and Stationarity, Time Series
Operations, Detrending, Successive Differences, Moving Average and Smoothing, Exponentially weighted forecasting
model, Lagging, Correlation and Auto-correlation, Holt Winters Methods, Single Exponential smoothing, Holt’s linear
trend method, Holt’s Winter seasonal method, ARIMA and SARIMA
Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Feature Engineering on Text Data Lesson, Natural Language Understanding Techniques, Natural Language,
Generation, Natural Language Processing Libraries, Natural Language Processing with Machine Learning
Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Shallow Neural Networks, Deep Neural Networks, Forward Propagation and Backpropagation. How to Build and Train
Deep Neural networks, and apply it to Computer Vision. Introduction to Perceptron & Neural Networks Activation
and Loss functions, Gradient Descent, Hyper Parameter Tuning, Tensor Flow & Keras for Neural Networks.
Introduction to Sequential data, RNNs and its mechanisms, Vanishing & Exploding gradients in RNNs, LSTMs - Long
short-term memory, GRUs - Gated recurrent unit, LSTMs Applications, Time series analysis, LSTMs with attention
mechanism, Neural Machine Translation, Advanced Language Models:, Transformers, BERT, XLNet
Text Mining And Sentimental Analysis
Text cleaning, regular expressions, Stemming, Lemmatization, Word cloud, Principal Component Analysis, Bigrams &
Trigrams, Web scrapping, Text summarization, Lex Rank algorithm, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Technique,
Word2vec Architecture (Skip Grams vs CBOW), Text classification, Document vectors, Text classification using Doc2vec
Reinforcement Learning
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning, Reinforcement Learning Framework and Elements, Multi-Arm Bandit
Markov Decision Process, Q-value and Advantage Based Algorithms
Computer vision
Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks, Convolution, Pooling, Padding & its mechanisms, Forward
Propagation & Backpropagation for CNNs, CNN architectures like AlexNet, VGGNet, InceptionNet & ResNet, Transfer
Learning, Advanced Computer Vision, Object Detection, YOLO, R-CNN, SSD, Semantic Segmentation, U-Net, Face
Recognition using Siamese
Networks, Instance Segmentation
Data Visualization using Tableau/Power Bi
Data Visualization Using Tableau
Introduction to Visualization, Rules of Visualization, Data Types, Sources, Connections, Loading, Reshaping, Data
Aggregation, Working with Continuous and Discrete Data, Using Filters, Using Calculated Fields and parameters
Creating Tables and Charts, Building Dash Boards and storyboards, Sharing Your Work, and Publishing for wider
audience
Data Visualization Using Power Bi
Introduction to Microsoft Power BI, The key features of Power BI workflow, Desktop application, BI service, File
data sources, Sourcing data from the web (OData and Azure), Building a dashboard, Data visualization, Publishing
to the cloud, DAX data computation, Row context, Filter context, Analytics pane, Creating columns and measures,
Data drill down and drill up, Creating tables, Binned tables, data modeling and relationships, Power BI components
such as Power View, Map, Query, and Pivot
Data Visualization Using Google Data Studio
Introduction to Visualization, Introduction to Google Data Studio, How Data Studio Works? Data Types, Sources,
Connections, Loading, Reshaping, Data Aggregation, Working with Continuous and Discrete Data, Report Edit Mode
in Data Studio. Using Filters in Data Studio Using Calculated Fields and parameters Creating Tables and Charts
Building Dash Boards and story boards, Building Dash Boards and Story Boards in Data Studio.
Capstone Project
The Data Science Capstone project provides an opportunity for students to carry out a defined piece of
independent research or design. These skills include the capacity to define a research or design question, show
how it relates to existing knowledge and carry out the research or design in a systematic manner. Students will
be expected to choose a research/development project that demonstrates their prior learning in the data
science domain (MDS). The results will be presented in a final project presentation and report. It is not expected
that the project outcomes from this unit will represent a significant contribution to new knowledge. The unit
aims to provide students with the opportunity to carry out a defined piece of independent investigative research
or design work in a setting and manner that fosters the development of data science skills in research or design.
CAREER PERSPECTIVES
Why choose Master in Data Science?
The Master in Data Science opens the door for your career in focusing on design aspects, communication technologies and
data-driven businesses. After your graduation, you are typically data storage and processing aspects unique to IoT.
01 Employability
Globally accepted by over 25,000 organisations in 130 countries
02
Maximum flexibility
Mobile learning
No fixed examination phases & online exams
Multiple Career Track
Flexible time models - study start anytime possible
03 Effective learning
Practical content
Individual and group coaching
04 Highest quality
Quality Framework
Monitoring and review
AAA Initiative
01 Employability
There are many reasons to pursue a data science degree from Birchwood
“Have a vision for what
you are trying to do.
University, but perhaps the most compelling is the incredible job growth Use data to validate
that is currently happening in the field. As a data science and statistics and help you navigate
major you’ll be taking an essential first step on a career path that boasts:
that vision, and map it
650% job growth since 2012 (source: LinkedIn).
An estimated 11.5 million new jobs by 2026 (source: U.S. Bureau of Labor down into small enough pieces
Statistics). where you can begin to execute in a
An average annual average salary of $120,931with the job title of data data-informed way. Don’t let
scientist (source: Glassdoor), and an average salary of over $84,000 per
shallow analysis of data that
year across 14 specific data analysis and data science careers linked to
PennWest California’s statistics and data science degree program happens to be cheap/easy/fast to
(source: Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education). collect nudge you off-course in
your entrepreneurial pursuits.”
Employment Statistics in Data Science Careers
Graduates of Birchwood's data science degree program have the advantage of Andrew Chen,
starting a career path in which there are more open jobs than qualified Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
candidates to fill them. As the Harvard Business Review states, “the shortage of Ex Head of Rider Growth at Uber
data scientists is becoming a serious constraint in some sectors.”
What’s more, because Birchwood’s Master’s degree in data science prepare
students to pursue the credential of Certified Data Science Professional,
Birchwood University's data science majors stand out from their peers in job
applications.
As a data science and statistics major the job opportunities available
to you include:
A predicted 2.7 million open jobs in data analysis, data science
and related careers in 2020 (source: IBM).
39% growth in employer demand for demand for both data
scientists and data engineers by 2020 (source IBM).
Berlin
An average earning potential of $8,736 more per year than
any other bachelor’s degree jobs (source: IBM).
A degree in data science from Birchwood university will put you in a prime
position to fill the employment gaps in the field. If you’re interested in starting
on the career path of what the Harvard Business review calls the “sexiest job of
the 21st century”, a data science degree from PennWest California is a great
choice.
02 Mobile learning
Maximum Flexibility
Online course materials No fixed
Significant online learning materials and high-quality study scripts give you examination phases
detailed insight, and summaries, of the essential learning content. Before
your examination, this online material will ensure you are prepared and
Online exams
have enough knowledge to pass the online exams.
Take exams whenever you are ready: