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Data science is a new profession emerging along with the exponential growth in size and availability of big data. A data scientist provides insight into future trends by looking at past and current data. Data science is an essential skill set in a world where everything from education to commerce, communication to transport, involves large-scale data collection and digitalisation. This conversion Masters degree is designed to accommodate students from a range of backgrounds who want to enhance or build their data science capabilities and combine these with the skills and knowledge they bring from their previous studies. So long as students are data-hungry and industry-aware; this degree can add to their employability and career prospects.