MS with Major in Data Science and Analytics - Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Concentration

Students enrolled in this concentration will take three core courses:

1. CAP 5768 Introduction to Data Science
2. CAP 6673 Data Mining and Machine Learning
3. STA 5195 Biostatistics, or 
   ISM 6404 Introduction to Business Analytics and Big Data, or 
   POS 6934 Special Topics (Quantitative Methods)

Take four concentration courses - Any course with the prefix CAP offered by the EECS department or CEN 6405.

Take three elective courses from the list below. Thesis option requires only one elective course and 6 thesis credits.

      Business Analytics

  1. ISM 6136 Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

  2. ISM 6217 Database Management Systems

  3. ISM 6404 Introduction to Business Analytics and Big Data

  4. ISM 6405 Advanced Business Analytics

  5. ISM 6555 Social Media and Web Analytics

  6. QMB 6303 Data Management and Analysis with Excel

  7. QMB 6603 Data Analysis for Managers

 

      Database and Cloud Computing

  8. CDA 6132 Multiprocessor Architecture

  9. CEN 5086 Cloud Computing

10. COP 6726 New Directions in Database Systems

11. COP 6731Theory and Implementation of Database Systems

12. ISM 6217 Database Management Systems

 

      Data Mining and Machine Learning

13. CAP 5615 Introduction to Neural Networks

14. CAP 6315 Social Networks and Big Data Analytics

15. CAP 6546 Data Mining for Bioinformatics

16. CAP 6618 Machine Learning for Computer Vision

17. CAP 6619 Deep Learning

18. CAP 6673 Data Mining and Machine Learning

19. CAP 6776 Information Retrieval

20. CAP 6777 Web Mining

21. CAP 6778 Advanced Data Mining and Machine Learning

22. CAP 6780 Big Data Analytics with Hadoop

23. CAP 6807 Computational Advertising and Real-Time Analytics

24. CEN 6405 Computer Performance Modeling

25. ISM 6136 Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

 

      Data Security and Privacy

26. CIS 6370 Computer Data Security

27. CTS 6319 Cyber Security: Measurement and Data Analysis

28. ISM 6328 Management of Information Assurance and Security

29. MAD 5474 Introduction to Cryptology and Information Security

30. MAD 6478 Cryptanalysis

31. PHY 6646 Quantum Mechanics 2

 

      Scientific Applications and Modeling

32. GIS 6028C Photogrammetry and Aerial Photography Interpretation

33. GIS 6032C LIDAR Remote Sensing and Applications

34. GIS 6061C Web GIS

35. GIS 6112C Geospatial Databases

36. GIS 6127 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

37. GIS 6306 Spatial Data Analysis

38. PHY 6938 Special Topics (Quantum Information Processing)

39. PHZ 5156 Computational Physics

40. PHZ 7609 Numerical Relativity

 

      Social Data Science

41. ANG 6090 Advanced Anthropological Research 1

42. ANG 6092 Advanced Anthropological Research 2

43. ANG 6486 Quantitative Reasoning in Anthropological Research

44. CAP 6315 Social Networks and Big Data Analytics

45. COM 6316 Quantitative Communication Research

46. POS 6934 Special Topics (Quantitative Methods)

47. POS 6736 Research Design in Political Science

48. SYA 6305 Seminar in Advanced Research Methods

 

      Statistics and Data Applications

49. BSC 6459 Biomedical Data and Informatics

50. STA 5195 Biostatistics

51. STA 6106 Statistical Computing

52. STA 6177 Survival Analysis

53. STA 6197 Biostatistics - Longitudinal Data Analysis

54. STA 6207 Applied Statistical Methods

55. STA 6236 Regression Analysis

56. STA 6326 Mathematical Statistics

57. STA 6857 Applied Time Series Analysis

58. MTG 6329 Applied Computational Topology