Program
EIT Digital Data Science 1st Year Master Program
(update is on going till feb. 2019)
The Master 1 year consists of two semesters and allows you to earn (at least) 60 ECTS (European Credits Transfer System). Each semester provides 30 ECTS. The year average mark / result is only done on the modules in each semester that account for the per-semester 30 ECTS.
Each student must accomplish the requested Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) courses and summer school that the EIT label mandates. The total is 24 ECTS, out of the 60 ECTS of the whole year.
To this aim, the course modules listed below, and the mandatory summer school that the Master School Office organizes centrally will allow you to earn the 60 ECTS that you need. When a module encompasses more than one course, the average mark of the courses in the module must be >=10 over 20, in order to collect the corresponding ECTS.
To allow the maximum of flexibility in order to accomodate strong differences between students background (e.g. Bachelor in Statistics compared to Bachelor in Computer Science/Engineering), we have a quite long list of electives. Personal guidance is provided to help students make their choice at the begining of the first semester.
1st Year Master Program (From 2018-19)
Semester 1 technical major courses
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Elective courses 1, that could be selected without time schedule conflicts (18-19 acad. year) | 15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Semester 2 technical major courses
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Data science 2 | 9 | ||||||||||||
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Elective courses 2, that could be selected without time schedule conflicts (18-19 acad. year) | 6 | ||||||||||||
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MAM4 means 4th year of Maths Appliquées and Modelisation (MAM) department of Polytech Nice Sophia. SI5 means 5th year of Sciences Informatiques (SI) of this same engineering school. MAM5/SI5 SD corresponds to the 5th year' option track entitled "Sciences des Données" (SD). This SD track already starts from the MAM4 second semester curriculum (eg. MAM4 option SD). Of course, all courses listed are taught in English except if not specifically mentioned (FR).
Polytech MAM4 students that wish to get enrolled in the Master 1 DSC can also have a chance to take as optional French taught courses the following (supposing there is no time schedule conflict):
- Semester 1: Interpolation numérique, Equations aux dérivées partielles, Processus stochastiques
- Semester 2: Réalité augmentée (course of the MAM4-SD track)
I&E Minor courses
Minor courses are decomposed along the two semesters in the following blocks:
Semester 1:
I & E 1 | Total 9 ECTS |
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Basics in I&E | 3 coeff |
Entrepreunership (SKEMA Business course DS4H EUR shared) | 3 coeff |
Business Dev. Lab Part1 | 3 coeff |
Semester 2:
I & E 2 | Total 6 ECTS |
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Digital business (SKEMA Business course DS4H EUR shared) | 3 coeff |
Digital IP and Law (Law Faculty DS4H EUR shared) | 3 coeff |
I & E 3 | Total 9 ECTS |
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Business Dev. Lab Part 2 | 5 coeff |
Summer school (globally organised EIT Digital) | 4 coeff |
Overall, the Basics in Innovation and Entrepreunership accounts for 6 ECTS, and the Business Development Lab for 8 ECTS.
Former Course plans (up to 2017-2018) : Semester 1, September-February (30 ECTS)
Module name | Module content: courses list | Total number of ECTS of the module |
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Communication and management skills (part of I&E) | 3 courses: French as a Foreign Language (or English for French speaking students), Scientific communication, Mini Business Development Lab | 6 ECTS |
Networked and Large Scale Systems | 2 courses depending on student's background among Web of Data, Semantic Web, Introduction to Networking (part 1 of), Algorithms for networking (with a Data Analysis lab) (part 2 of), Network security (part 3 of), Content distribution in Wireless networks, Virtualized Cloud technologies, Large Scale Distributed systems | 4 ECTS |
Algorithmic and Applications in Data management | 2 courses: Combinatorial and Graph techniques (part 2 of); Basics of probability and statistics (part 3 of). Depending on student's background, also Analysis and Indexing of images and videos or Semantic Web can be selected. | 4 ECTS |
Data Analytics | 2 courses, each 3 ECTS: Technology for Big Data; Data Mining | 6 ECTS |
I&E principles (part of I&E) | 3 9hours long courses on: Technological entrepreneur ideation, Entrepreneurial finance, Business and marketing, | 4 ECTS |
Options (choose 3 courses, each of 2 ECTS) | Cryptography and network Security (part 3 of); Greedy algorithms in IA/Problem solving (part 1 of); Winter school on complex networks; Large Scale Distributed systems; Personal project 1, Personal project 2 (can be combined); Knowledge Engineering | 6 ECTS |
Bonus courses | Analysis and indexing of images and videos in big data systems; Virtualized and cloud computing; Content distribution in Wireless Networks can be accounted if they have not yet been used in the above courses blocks. |
2 ECTS each; Each course mark>=10, +0.25 on the semester average mark; mark in [12,14[ +0.5; mark >=14 +0.75 |
Semester 2, February-June (30 ECTS)
Distributed systems | Concurrent, parallel, distributed systems | 4 (not 6) ECTS |
Data Analysis | Statistical machine learning (short version), Data Valorization | 4 ECTS |
Data Science | Selected Research seminars in Data Science on the campus premises (homeworks are research papers synthesis, or specific practical works, eg. on Tableau), and from Web Science | 4 ECTS |
Optional courses | Depending on student's background: Machine learning for computer vision (part 1 of), Computer Graphics (part 4 of); Advanced OO programming (C++ part of); or (in French) Programming distributed /parallel applications | 2 ECTS |
Study and research in Business in Data Science (part of I&E) | Business Development Lab (standard spec, see Course 1), including technical POC solution for the industrial selected use case (7 ECTS) Data Science business oriented application courses (standard spec, see Course 2, and more details here) and research seminars (on data search and storage, living labs, legal aspects of data usage) (5 ECTS) |
12 ECTS |
EIT Digital Summer School | Organized centrally by EIT Digital master school | 4 ECTS |
Bonus courses |
Software programming and object oriented engineering (can be replaced by a research and development personal project with sufficient engineering and development efforts) |
2 ECTS each |