BSc (Hons) Data Science and Analytics (Including Placement Year)

Data is the lifeblood of our society. From medicine to government offices, and market research to the environment, the collection and analysis of data is crucial to understanding how to improve, create and guide products and services across the globe. Data science is about doing some detective work and carrying out the investigations needed to inform important decisions and to predict new trends. Technology is growing and evolving at an incredible speed, and both the rate of growth of data we generate and the devices we use to process it can only increase.

At Essex, we help you to understand how utilising the speed and processing power of computers can assist in using data to make better decisions. You discover the new methods and the smart, unusual questions needed to make sense of both structured and unstructured data.
This course balances solid theory with practical application, exploring topics including:
mathematical skillscomputer science and programmingstatistics and operations researchartificial intelligence, databases and information retrievalethical issues around the use and processing of dataspecialist skills in the areas of big data, data analytics and data science