• Students or recent graduates from programs with introductory level analytics, statistics, and/or business intelligence courses
• Professionals with prior academic and work experience in data analytics and/or introductory level of data science, and related technology topics
• Employees in finance, insurance, health care, marketing, retail, government, logistics, transportation, information systems, media/entertainment sectors, or other sectors that utilize data analysis
• Individuals seeking a new career path in technology, informatics, business intelligence, web analytics, data collection, and Machine Learning
• Students interested in enrolling in advanced data program streams in big data programming and architecture but need to acquire prerequisite knowledge

Earning a Certificate or a Certificate of Professional Learning could open doors to exciting roles as:

• Data Analysts
• Business Analysts
• Business Intelligence Developers
• Computer & information research scientists
• Quantitative analysts
• Data storytellers / Data modelers
• Statistical Analysts
• Marketing Scientists
• Machine Learning Scientists
• Data Scientists

Upon completion of the program, students will:

1. Identify a business problem and determine if, and how, an analytics solution is applicable
2. Translate a business problem into an analytics problem
3. Propose, and refine, analytical solutions to business problems
4. Collect, analyze, interpret, and share data
5. Identify relationships in data
6. Select problem-solving techniques and software tools to test analytical solutions
7. Employ common industry software tools
8. Identify, test, and evaluate model structures to apply to solve a business problem
9. Assess new and emerging technologies, tools and strategies applicable to data science and related fields
10. The following objectives will be threaded within each course
11. Demonstrate an awareness of ethical practices and professional standards applicable to the field of data analytics
12. Exemplify the skills, attitudes and behaviours required to work and collaborate with people and develop personal management skills
13. Employ effective communication practices

Are you a current McMaster University undergraduate student?

Explore the ElevateYourSkills option to learn how you can earn a Data Science certificate as part of your degree.

• Use your electives to earn a professional certificate or diploma
• Fully online courses that you can fit into your schedule
• Providing you with real-life career skills and experience before you graduate

Learn more here.