Master’s in Data Science Courses & Curriculum | Northwestern SPS - Northwestern School of Professional Studies

Course Schedule, Part-time Online Program

Please note that course schedules may be amended due to low enrollment, faculty availability, and/or other factors.

Online Sync Sessions are an integral part of the online learning experience. Additional information about learning concepts and assignments may be discussed and sync sessions offer valuable opportunities for students to interact with their faculty and peers during the term. We encourage all students to attend live, but if they are unable to, sync sessions will be recorded and posted within Canvas to allow for an asynchronous model of success as well.

MSDS 434-DL : Data Science and Cloud Computing

Description

This course introduces technologies and systems for developing and implementing data science solutions. It takes a cloud-native approach to delivering analytics applications that are scalable, highly available, and easy to maintain. Students work on systems integration projects, automating stages of application development and using open-source programming languages and systems. They learn about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in the cloud, employing best practices in software engineering.

*Prior to fall 2024, this course was titled "Analytics Application Engineering."

This is a required course for the Data Engineering specialization.

Recommended prior courses: (A) MSDS 431-DL Data Engineering with Go, (B) MSDS 432-DL Foundations of Data Engineering, and (C) MSDS 422-DL Practical Machine Learning or CIS 435 Practical Data Science Using Machine Learning.

Prerequisites: (1) MSDS 400-DL Math for Modelers and (2) MSDS 420-DL Database Systems or CIS 417 Database Systems Design.