The MSc Program in Statistics and Data Science with a updated curriculum is calling for applications for the 2024 academic year. Applications for both the part-time evening program and the full-time day program are invited. The curriculum has been designed around the "Greater Data Science" discipline.
New Curriculum
The updated curriculum has been designed around the "Greater Data Science" (GDS) discipline [see Donoho (2017)]. The GDS consists of the following six divisions:
Our program has been designed to cover all aspects of the GDS with particular emphasis on both Data Visualization and Data Modeling.
Data Visualization
Visualization is an important and essential ingredient of data science. The most basic use of a visual output is to communicate an analysis result in easily interpretable returns for all kind of users. A well-designed visual display can be more approachable than lists of numbers and texts with technical terms. To bring humans closer to the data analytics loop, visualization can also act as an interface between machine intelligence and domain expertise. Not only can visualization allow effortless data consumption, but it can also enable other types of data analytics. The so-called "visual analytics" is suitable for exploring any new datasets and for forming questions to be examined further either using additional data science methods.
Data Modeling
Data modeling aims at providing an understanding of the data at a deeper level. Machine learning and statistical inference are the main tools of this division. Machine learning and predictive modeling is based on the construction of a model to detect patterns in a data set, and it can be used to provide accurate predictions for a given data universe. Deep learning is an example of predictive models that has been successfully applied in various applications such as computer vision and natural language processing. Statistical inference and generative modeling employs a stochastic model that generates data and uses the data to infer key properties of the underlying generative mechanism. Confidence and decision rules can then be derived based on the model and the data. The probabilistic graphical method is an example of the modern generative model method, which has been employed in a wide range of applications anywhere from medical diagnostic process to causal inferences. The ultimate goal of data modeling is to construct an effective decision support process within a rich data environment.
หลักสูตร MS Stat & Data Sci นำนิสิตเดินทางมาศึกษาดูงาน ณ ประเทศไต้หวัน
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