This MSc Applied Data Science and Cyber Security is a new master's designed for those wanting to learn the skills required to gain insights from data and an understanding of cyber security.

The conversion course enables students with little prior exposure to programming, machine learning, or cyber security to develop expertise and valuable skills that will prepare students for a career in the growing data science and information security industry where there is significant demand for skilled personnel, both in the UK and internationally. The importance of data science and cyber security grows year on year, with sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, finance, and others reliant on the insights that accurate data capture and analysis can provide; at the same time, there is an ever-growing need to engage with related cyber security and privacy issues.

The course will introduce students to a variety of languages essential to Data Science, including Python, and how to use different software packages such as sci-kit-learn. They will develop their understanding of how a wide variety of data science methods work, including clustering, regression, decision trees, and neural networks, learning how to apply them through hands-on examples.  They will also build a sound knowledge of cyber security and data privacy, including the particular privacy challenges faced by many data science applications as well as ongoing issues such as the detection of security events.