MSc Data science and Business Analytics

Introduction

According to IBM , "data science is a multidisciplinary approach to extracting actionable insights from the large and ever-increasing volumes of data collected and created by today’s organizations. "

Craig McNeile is the program manager of the Data Science and Business Analytics MSc (linkedin)

This site has some additional background information for the MSc Data Science and Business Analytics from the University of Plymouth.  The overview of the MSc shown at the online open day is here for an October start.  There is a separate talk for a January start.   There is a  FAQ for the MSc. 

• Some examples of data science roles at Amazon.

• See this video on Introduction to Business Analytics

Some courses on R and Python

Although the MSc teaches R/python and databases from scratch, it can be useful to do some preparation work.  The kaggle site contains some good tutorials on Python and machine learning.

• Introduction to Python -- online course from kaggle.

• R tutorial from the University of Georgia.

• An introduction to R for data science  An online book on R.

• Introduction to pandas (the library used for spreadsheet data) in Python -- online course from kaggle,

• A good way to learn Python is to use Google Collab

Job sites

The following are some job listing boards in the UK. You can search for data science or business analytics jobs. 

• Reed job site

• Indeed job site

The University of Plymouth has a careers service to help you obtain employment.

Here you can find the average salary for a data scientist in the UK.