Big Data Analysis and Project

Postgraduate | 2026

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Your studies will be on-campus, and may include some online delivery
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Area/Catalogue
COMP 5040
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Course ID
203311
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Campus
Adelaide City Campus East
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Level of study
Postgraduate
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Unit value
6
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Course owner
School of Comp Sc & IT
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Course level
5
Work Integrated Learning course
Work Integrated Learning course
No
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
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No
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University-wide elective course
No
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Single course enrolment
No

Course overview

The purpose of this course is to help you further develop your data science skills and knowledge, as well as demonstrate autonomy, initiative and accountability by completing a medium-scale data science project using real-world datasets. This project will entail assessing, selecting and applying relevant data science techniques, principles and theory to a data science problem. You will consider the nature of your data and identify any social or ethical concerns, as well as appropriate ethical frameworks for data management. As part of this learning experience, you will develop, hone and demonstrate your professional communicative competence.

Course learning outcomes

  • Apply data analysis principles and theory to process and analyse real-world big data.
  • Evaluate data analysis techniques by them applying real-world datasets using benchmark metrics.
  • Develop algorithms based on learnt techniques for the statistical analysis of big data.
  • Identify project goals, develop project milestones and execute them accordingly.
  • Analyse known industry studies and simulate assessment by following industry standards.

Prerequisite(s)

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Corequisite(s)

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Antirequisite(s)

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