San Diego State University

Big Data Analytics (BDA) is a dynamic approach to uncovering patterns, unknown correlations, and other useful insights from diverse, large-scale datasets. Although BDA is related to data science, statistics, artificial intelligence, and geospatial technologies, its focuses is on business discoveries from big data by using available software tools, such as data mining, machine learning, computational linguistics, geographic information systems (GIS), social network analysis, financial and marketing analytics, spatiotemporal data analysis, and time-frequency analysis.

The SDSU Big Data Analytics (BDA) Program is a transdisciplinary program across technology, business, engineering, science, and social science domains leading to a Master of Science Degree in Big Data Analytics at San Diego State University. The two-year program is operated in a collaborative and active transdisciplinary educational environment for students and professionals who wish to advance their knowledge and skills in the fast growing fields of data science and data analytics. It is to meet the strong demand for data analytic jobs in the era of data- and knowledge-economy.