Especialização em Data Science

Objetivos educativos

The popularity of Data Science and Analytics has been steadily growing in the last few years, both in Industry and Academia. The Master degree Program in Data Science and Advanced Analytics, with a Major in Data Science, is aimed at technically oriented people with solid scientific background, who want to strengthen and deepen their skills on the most used paradigms and environments for software development, and apply them to solve complex real-world problems involving vast amounts of data.

The best students of the 1^st year of the Master in Data Science and Advanced Analytics will be invited for a 6 month paid internship, to be held during the 2^nd year, in one of the program's partner institutions (Accenture, Grupo Ageas Portugal, SAS, Millennium BCP, Rebis Consulting, NOVA IMS and Tranquilidade).

This Program will provide a set of interdisciplinary skills and tools such as:

• Understanding of the main paradigms associated with large databases and data warehouses;
• Understanding the processes of decision making;
• Mastering data mining tools and computational intelligence, for "Big Data" related problems;
• Mastering the processes of creation and maintenance of descriptive and predictive models;
• Mastering the most used paradigms and environments of software development;
• Mastering the concept of problem solving.

Applications - academic year 2020/2021
To complete the application, the applicant must register in NOVA IMS' Applications Portal, fill the form, upload their Curriculum Vitae, pay the application fee (€ 51), and submit the application in the end from April 14th to May 19th 2020. The selection process is based on the analysis of the applicant's academic and professional curriculum.