Central to Generating Insight from Data.
CCSU’s Data Science Official Certificate Program (OCP) provides current professionals
and students with an overview of data mining methods and models. Successful students
will be able to apply these techniques to large data sets. Other topics covered include
web and text mining, mining for genomics and proteomics, and current issues in data
mining.
Program Features
- Starts every January and August
- 20-credit program
- Attend full- or part-time
- 100% online
- No GMAT/GRE required
The average annual wage of data scientists and mathematical science occupations in
May 2020 in Connecticut was $95k.
Source:
bls.gov
- Apply data science using a systematic process, by implementing an adaptive, iterative,
and phased framework to the process, including the research understanding phase, the
data understanding phase, the exploratory data analysis phase, the modeling phase,
the evaluation phase, and the deployment phase
- Evaluate the true consequences of making false positive or false negative decisions
- Demonstrate proficiency with leading open-source analytics coding software such as
R and Python, as well as commercial platforms
- Understand and apply a wide range of clustering, estimation, prediction, and classification
algorithms including k-means clustering, Kohonen clustering, classification and regression
trees, logistic regression, k-nearest neighbor, multiple regression, and neural networks
- Learn more specialized techniques in bioinformatics, text analytics, algorithms, and
other current issues
