MasTER IN

DATA SCIENCE
www.barcelonagse.eu/masters

Seize the opportunity of a data-driven value creation

within an organization.
Define the rigorous methodology to approach and frame
the problem.
Manipulate raw data to extract insight from it and shape it
into a business or policy answer.
Deliver a value oriented solution and explain it effectively
to a non-technical audience.
 The Barcelona GSE Master in Data Science is one of the very few such programs
available internationally, and its graduates will be among the first to get a formal training
as data scientists.
Director: Christian Fons-Rosen (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
Scientific Director: Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE)

Program Details and Structure student profile

Language: English Graduates in Economics and Business, Statistics,
Structure: 9 months, full time (September-June) Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, and
Degree awarded by: UPF and UAB Physics with the ambition to work with real world
problems and data.
Selected Courses
Early-career professionals who want to refocus
Statistical Modelling Omiros Papaspiliopoulos their careers around data science and analytics.
and Inference ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE
Aspiring PhD students looking for rigorous training
Marc Noy in quantitative and analytical methods.
Deterministic Models
Universitat Politcnica de
and Optimization
Catalunya

Data Warehousing career outlook

Guglielmo Bartolozzi
and Business
Kernel Analytics The Barcelona GSE Master in Data Science is offered
Intelligence
for the first time in the 2014-15 academic year.
Alumni outlook data will be available in Fall 2015.
Christian Brownlees
Computing Lab
UPF and Barcelona GSE
Potential Employers
Analytics departments in companies in several
Economics for the Christian Fons-Rosen
Era of Big Data UPF and Barcelona GSE
industries
Finance and Insurance Industry
Gbor Lugosi Consulting Firms
Machine Learning
ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE
Research Institutes
Stochastic Models Mihalis Markakis Public institutions, central banks and European
and Optimization UPF and Barcelona GSE agencies

Michael Greenacre Companies with expressed interest to recruit

Data Visualization
UPF and Barcelona GSE
Indra Deloitte Analytics
HP Globant
Topics in Big Data Pau Agull
Analytics Kernel Analytics Oracle Dataiku
Everis Amazon
Social and Economic Joan de Mart
Networks UPF and Barcelona GSE Practicum Collaborators
La Caixa Telefonica
Opportunity to work in a data
Industrial Practicum science project with a company Banc Sabadell Accenture
as part of the MSc thesis
King Kernel Analytics

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