Big Data (Taught) | Master's degree | Computer Science & IT | On Campus | 3 years | Staffordshire University | United Kingdom

The course is designed to respond to critical skill shortages in the rapidly expanding field of Big Data. It offers a balance of practical skills combined with academic rigour in the field of Big Data. This is a unique offering which builds on the strengths and experience of Staffordshire University in delivering practical scholarship relevant to real world situations. The modern world is experiencing a growth of online data in a variety of forms, including social networks, web documents, digital libraries, blogs, medical records, biological data, remote sensing, imaging, forecasting etc. This data may not be fully structured but still contains valuable information that needs discovering, such as emerging opinions in social networks, consumer purchase behaviour,  trends from search engines, and other patterns that emerge from such huge data sources. These developments mean traditional applications are no longer appropriate to the processing and analysis of the amount of data available. Companies such as Google are leading the movement from a large-scale relational database reflecting the desire to analyse data automatically and on a larger scale than previously seen.