Data Science Universities

University of Sheffield

The Information School at The University of Sheffield is a thriving community of students, educators and researchers dedicated to the study and advancement of the information field and its professions. Our field is characterised by its distinctive, interdisciplinary focus on the interactions between people, information and digital technologies. It has the ultimate goal of enhancing information access, and the management, sharing and use of information, to benefit society. Good information empowers people and enriches their lives. Expertise to use, design and manage information products, services and systems effectively has never been more important than today, in our increasingly fast-moving and complex world.

Data Science Expertise

The Information School at the University of Sheffield offers the MSc Data Science programme lead by an academic team covering a diversity of relevant expertise from big data analytics, data mining, and information retrieval up to the social dimensions of data like, for example, governance and ethics in the use of data. Moreover, the University of Sheffield runs a number of networks and institutes related to Data Science including, for example, the Sheffield Methods Institute https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi and the Digital Society Network https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/digital-society-network.

Courses Offered

MSc Data Science http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/pgt/courses/ds

Additional Information

Data Science research at the University of Sheffield is often performed in collaboration with external organisations including for example, IBM, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and others.

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