Bachelor of Information Technology (Big Data and Analytics)

Businesses collect huge volumes of data -- it's everywhere. There is a real need for people who have the skills to identify, interpret and analyse trends from the collected data. In health, education, government, in small and large businesses, big data is used to make informed decisions. Banks look for unusual transactions, hospitals look for trends in admissions, and schools for patterns in student progress. You will study areas such as information and data analysis, allowing you to discover and quantify patterns using statistics, statistical inference, regression analysis, and machine learning. You are introduced to the appropriate methods and tools that are applied to retrieve, transform, organise, visualise, and analyse data. You will develop technical knowledge in a range of topics including statistics, statistical inference, high performance computing and visualisation.