MSc Big Data and Text Analytics

University of Essex

Postgraduate

In Colchester

£ 7,200 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Colchester

  • Duration

    1 Year

About the course
Our modern world is witnessing a growth of online data in a variety of forms, including web documents, blogs, social networks, digital libraries and medical records

Much of this data contains valuable information, such as emerging opinions in social networks, search trends from search engines, consumer purchase behaviour, and patterns that emerge from these huge data sources


The sheer volume of this information means that traditional stand-alone applications are no longer suitable to process and analyse this data

Our course equips you with the knowledge to contribute to this rapidly emerging area


We give you hands-on experience with various types of large-scale data and information handling, and start by providing you with a solid understanding of the underlying technologies, in particular cloud computing and high-performance computing

You explore areas including:
Mobile and social application programming
Human-computer interaction
Computer vision
Computer networking
Computer security
You also obtain practical knowledge of processing textual data on a large scale in order to turn this data into meaningful information, and have the chance to work on projects that are derived from actual industry needs proposed by our industrial partners


We are ranked Top 10 in the UK in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with more than two-thirds of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent (REF 2014)


Professional accreditation
This degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Facilities

Location

Start date

Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Computing
  • Project
  • Networks
  • Programming
  • Computer Security
  • Engineering
  • Web

Course programme

Example structure
Postgraduate study is the chance to take your education to the next level. The combination of compulsory and optional modules means our courses help you develop extensive knowledge in your chosen discipline, whilst providing plenty of freedom to pursue your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are, in many instances, just a selection of those available. Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current postgraduate students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 1
MSc Project and Dissertation


Information Retrieval
Cloud Technologies and Systems (optional)


Group Project


High Performance Computing


Machine Learning and Data Mining


Natural Language Engineering


Professional Practice and Research Methodology


Text Analytics


Advanced Web Technologies (optional)


Data Science and Decision Making (optional)
Big-Data for Computational Finance (optional)
Computer Security (optional)


Computer Vision (optional)


Creating and Growing a New Business Venture (optional)


Mobile & Social Application Programming (optional)


Teaching
Courses provide a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of the theory, methods and applications of computer science
Core components combined with optional modules, to enable you to gain either in-depth specialisation or a breadth of understanding
Our postgraduates are encouraged to attend conferences and seminars, as well as engage with the wider research community
Assessment
Courses are assessed on the results of your written examinations, together with continual assessments of your practical work and coursework
Dissertation
Your research project allows you to focus in depth on your chosen topic from April
Close supervision by faculty staff
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Additional information

This accreditation is increasingly sought by employers, and provides the first stage towards eventual professional registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) Our expert staff Today’s computer scientists are creative people who are focused and committed, yet restless and experimental We are home to many of the world’s top scientists, and our staff are driven by creativity and imagination as well as technical excellence We are conducting world-leading research in areas such as evolutionary computation, brain-computer interfacing, intelligent inhabited environments and financial forecasting Specialist staff working on data analytics include: Dr Luca Citi – machine learning, learning from biological signals and data (EEG, etc) Dr Adrian Clark – automatic construction of vision systems using machine learning and evaluation of algorithms, data visualisation and augmented reality Professor Maria Fasli – analysis of structured/unstructured data, machine learning, adaptation, semantic information extraction, ontologies, data exploration, recommendation technologies Professor John Gan – machine learning for data modelling and analysis, dimensionality reduction and feature selection in high-dimensional data space Dr Udo Kruschwitz – natural language processing, analysis textual/unstructured data, information retrieval Professor Massimo Poesio – cognitive science of language, text mining, computational linguistics Professor Edward Tsang – applied AI, constraint satisfaction, computational finance and economics, agent-based simulations Specialist facilities We are one of the largest and best resourced computer science and electronic engineering schools in the UK Our work is supported by extensive networked computer facilities and software aids, together with a wide range of test and instrumentation equipment We have six laboratories that are exclusively for computer science and electronic engineering students Three are open 24/7, and...

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MSc Big Data and Text Analytics

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