Mining Massive Data Sets Graduate Certificate

Description

Experienced data miners are needed now more than ever!

With the rise of user-web interaction and networking, as well as technological advances in processing power and storage capability, the demand for effective and sophisticated knowledge discovery techniques has grown exponentially. Businesses need to transform large quantities of information into intelligence that can be used to make smart business decisions.

With the Mining Massive Data Sets graduate certificate, you will master efficient, powerful techniques and algorithms for extracting information from large datasets such as the web, social-network graphs, and large document repositories. Take your career to the next level with skills that will give your company the power to gain a competitive advantage.

Who Should Apply

Software engineers, statisticians, predictive modelers, market research and analytics professionals, and data miners working with large amounts of raw data.

Earning the Certificate

• Begin your certificate any academic quarter that an applicable course is offered, subject to prerequisites
• Take courses for graduate credit and a grade
• Maintain a B (GPA of 3.0) or better in each course
• One core course may be substituted with another relevant CS course by arrangement with primary faculty.