DATA SCIENCE

During the last decade, it has become universal truth that modern business will be driven by data. Most of the organizations are therefore opening up their doors to big data. Data science professionals are those who can unlock the power of data to extract actionable insights out of such large amount of data. As per a report published in Times of India in July 2018, India has observed more than 400% rise in requirement for data science professional indifferent industry sectors, while the supply of such talent has a very slow growth in the country. Good data scientists having both theoretical knowledge and programming skill are scarce and on high demand. As a data scientist, one has to understand the business problems, collect and format data, applying algorithms and make recommendations backed by data. To perform these tasks professionally, one has to be trained well with many facets of data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, statistical analysis and data mining along with good programming skill. The objective of this course is to produce such trained data scientists who will have an edge for being hired in the positions like data scientists, data analyst and data science manager in industry as well as academia.

University of Kalyani has good research and study setup in various classical science and engineering disciplines like Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science & Engineering, Business Administration, Physics, Chemistry, and several branches of life sciences. Due to the growing demand of the data science professionals and scarcity of organized data science programs in the state, University of Kalyani feels the need of introducing a complete two-year M.Sc. program in Data Science exploiting the expertise of the faculties and resources from various existing disciplines mentioned above. Moreover, various other premiere academic and research institutes in close vicinity of the university, like IIIT Kalyani, NIBMG, IISER Kolkata, Kalyani Govt. Engineering College, Kalyani Medical College, ISI Kolkata, Bose Institute, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University etc. has good collaboration with University of Kalyani in various academic aspects. The university will therefore get good support of faculties from these institutes. Moreover, faculties from industries will also teach various industry-related papers.

This course will help the candidates in mastering data science tools and techniques like statistical analysis of data, machine learning, clustering, neural networks, deep learning classification, regression, association rule mining, decision trees, soft computing, big data analytics with Hadoop and Apache Spark, cloud infrastructure, IoT and other data science applications. The candidates will also be able to code data science programs using Python/R and gain from implementation of some data science related projects. This will help the candidates to develop required skill set for building a career as a data science professional in industry, as an entrepreneur to establish a start-up or as a researcher in some R&D organization.

There is an increasing demand for data science professionals in different industries. The students having a data science degree will get opportunity to work as data scientist, data analyst or data engineer in different industry like banking and finance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, travel and tourism, biomedical and biotechnology, e-commerce and many other where lot of data are being generated every day. Besides this, students can also opt for higher studies and research in the areas of data mining, machine learning, big data analytics etc. both in India and abroad. Furthermore, students can also go for entrepreneurship in the above areas by setting up start-up companies to serve different real-life problems.

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