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MSc Big Data and Text Analytics University of Essex

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MSc On-Campus Full-time 12 month October find out find out

Course overview

We give you hands-on experience with various types of large-scale data and information handling, and start by providing you with a solid understanding of the underlying technologies, in particular cloud computing and high-performance computing. You explore areas including:

  • Mobile and social application programming
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Computer vision
  • Computer networking
  • Computer security

You also obtain practical knowledge of processing textual data on a large scale in order to turn this data into meaningful information, and have the chance to work on projects that are derived from actual industry needs proposed by our industrial partners.


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