This course is designed to train highly qualified data analysts or data scientists to embark on careers in a wide range of industries. You’ll be given an excellent practical and theoretical grounding in data mining and statistics with the chance to customise your degree through modules in artificial intelligence, visualisation, programming and database manipulation. Data Scientists are highly prized for their advanced, practical skill set and their increasing importance to the success of a modern business. Organisations in almost any industry need to source, analyse and utilise vast amounts of data to aid strategic decision-making, so you’ll have great graduate career prospects as well as a wide range of transferrable skills. This course offers an excellent platform to a career in data analysis and is taught by one of the leading groups in Data Mining research in the UK. The course has both theoretical and practical elements and students will get hands on experience on commercial data mining and statistical software. Students may have the opportunity to participate on commercial data mining projects as part of their assessment, gaining experience on all the stages of the KDD process.