The
General Objective of the Programme is to produce highly committed, responsible
and creatively innovative professional graduates to deal with analyzing of
structured and unstructured data, modelling, software engineering,
visualization, creating and presenting insights that assist in making powerful
data-driven decisions. Data Science is the extraction of knowledge from data.
It is the blended technology brought from the broad areas of mathematics,
statistics, information science and computer science. Data science can be used
to investigate complex problems in various domains, such as marketing optimization,
health-care, business analysis, bank systems, setting public policy, etc.
The
Qualified Data Science Professionals shall have the following skills:
·
Statistics
skills: Ability to collect, process and analyze data, ability to design
statistical models, ability to interpret data.
·
Mathematics
skills: Ability to manipulate data, ability to write mathematics models,
ability to design mathematics algorithms.
·
Computer
skills: Ability to generate data visualization, ability to mine/extract
information from data (data mining), ability to generate the forecasting and
predictive models.