Certificate in Data Science

Type: Embedded, Credit-based

Offered by:  Faculties of Computer Science, Management, Law, Medicine and Science

Coordinator: Dr. Ga Wu, Faculty of Computer Science, ga.wu@dal.ca

Overview:

The Certificate in Data Science draws on an interdisciplinary collection of courses from computer science, management and statistics. It aims to educate students on an array of data science and statistical methods, models, and tools and position them to be able to draw conclusions from data reliably and robustly with quantification of all uncertainties, and promote reproducibility of the results.

Students who complete the certificate will be prepared to:

1) Implement and use a variety of data science and statistical methods, models, and tools to leverage technological and management advances in digital business and e-commerce;
2) Show an awareness of conditions for applicability and failure of data science and statistics tools;
3) Demonstrate a thorough understanding of how to quantify uncertainties associated with particular methods; and
4) Understand the conditions for applicability and failure of data science and statistic tools in the context of digital business, assess the impact of technology, business, and policy related issues.

Admission Requirements / Eligibility:

Students must be registered in the Master of Digital Innovation (MDI) program to be eligible for this certificate.

Certificate Requirements:

Core course requirements (9 credit hours):

STAT 5620.03:  Data Analysis

CSCI 6409.03: The Process of Data Science

CSCI 6505.03: Machine Learning

Electives (Pick 6 credit hours from the following courses):

BUSI 6513.03 or INFO 6513.03 or BUSI 6532.03: Business Analytics and Data Visualization

INFO 6681.03: Geospatial Information Management

STAT 5130.03: Bayesian Data Analysis

STAT 5350.03: Applied Multivariate Analysis

STAT 5390.03: Applied Multivariate Analysis

STAT 5550.03: Longitudinal Data Analysis

CSCI 6405.03: Data Mining and Data Warehousing

CSCI 6406.03: Visualization

CSCI 6410.03: Applied Research in Health Data Science

CSCI 6509.03: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing

CSCI 6515.03: Machine Learning for Big Data

CSCI 6517.03: Recommender Systems

CSCI 6612.03: Visual Analytics

DGIN 5401.03: Operationalized Machine Learning in Healthcare

Application of Credit Hours Towards Other Degree Requirements:

Courses completed as part of this certificate may be double-counted towards the requirements of the MDI degree, subject to approval by the student’s supervisor and graduate coordinator in their primary degree program. Courses not approved to count towards the primary degree requirements will result in additional tuition fees on a per-course fee basis.