Graduate Certificate program in Data Science at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

The program will introduce students to the core concepts necessary for the design, implementation, and application of database systems.

The Databases and Data Mining Graduate Certificate stresses the fundamental principles in database modeling and design. The aim is to address the continuing need for engineering databases for complex and ever changing applications requiring security, performance, and reliability. The program emphasizes fundamentals for:.

From this certificate program, students will be able to:.

Develop the logical design of the database using data modeling concepts such as entity-relationship diagrams.

Assess the quality and ease of use of data modeling and diagramming tools.

Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore data (usually large amounts of data typically business or market related) in search of consistent patterns and or systematic relationships between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying the detected patterns to new subsets of data. The ultimate goal of data mining is prediction and predictive data mining is the most common type of data mining and one that has the most direct business applications. The process of data mining consists of three stages:.

Deployment (i.e., the application of the model to new data in order to generate predictions).

Federal regulations issued by the Education require that Indiana University make certain information this certificate program available. Disclosure of this data is a condition of awarding federal financial assistance to eligible students in this non-degree academic program.

Admission and completion of Certificate does not guarantee MS program admission.

Substitution of Certificate Classes requires the advance approval of the CS Department Graduate Committee.

A graduate certificate will be issued when a student has completed 12 graduate credit hours in one of the specialization areas. After finishing the requirements for the graduate certificate, the student may opt to finish the remaining requirements towards a MS degree.

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