Certificate in Data Science
Certificate in Data Science
This certificate is intended for students completing a Bachelor of Computer Science or a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, but is open to currently registered Dalhousie students in all Faculties; it will not be open for direct application.
This certificate requires a student to take three required courses and three electives from a list of elective courses with at least a C in each of them. Required courses are:
Elective courses are:
- CSCI 4125: High Performance Computing
- CSCI 4141: Information Retrieval
- CSCI 4144: Introduction to Data Mining and Data Warehousing
- CSCI 4152: Natural Language Processing
- CSCI 4155: Machine Learning
- CSCI 4156: Reinforcement Learning with Gaming Applications
- CSCI 4166: Visualization
- STAT 2080: Statistical methods for Data Analysis and Inference
- STAT 3340: Regression and Analysis of Variance
Requirements
Note that to obtain a certificate, the degree requirements must be satisfied. To be awarded a Certificate, students must apply to graduate with a Certificate at the time they apply to graduate from their degree program.