{"298621":{"#nid":"298621","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Offers a New One-Year Master\u0027s in Analytics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is now offering a one-year Master of Science in Analytics to meet the growing demand for savvy professionals who can transform data into relevant insights for making better business decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnalytics spans the fields of statistics, operations research, computing, and business. The Georgia Tech Master of Science in Analytics degree is one of the few truly interdisciplinary analytics degrees that include all of those areas. As a result, our graduates will be uniquely able to think across the disciplines as they generate deeper insights into analytics problems,\u201d said Joel Sokol, director of the MS in Analytics program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis interdisciplinary degree program leverages the combined strengths of Georgia Tech in statistics, operations research, computing, and business by melding the world-class expertise of the College of Engineering\u2019s Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, the College of Computing\u2019s School of Computational Science and Engineering, and the Scheller College of Business. By combining the strengths of these nationally ranked programs, graduates will be afforded the opportunity to integrate analytic skills in a unique and interdisciplinary way that yields deep insights into analytics problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the central objectives of the program will be to produce graduates who will be ready to enter the workplace with the computing, business, statistics, and operations research skills needed to immediately identify, analyze, and solve analytics problems for better business intelligence and decision support. Georgia Tech\u2019s Master of Science in Analytics graduates will be able to move directly into business, industry, and government positions where they can apply the practical knowledge they have gained to immediately benefit their employers.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EProgram participants will have access to a state-of-the-art analytics lab with high-performance computing infrastructure for massive-scale data analytics, and will learn to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eidentify and frame problems;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eacquire, manage, and utilize large and fast-moving streams of data;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ecreate, analyze, solve, and interpret mathematical models using appropriate methodology; and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u0026nbsp;integrate these interdisciplinary skills to successfully develop and execute analytics projects.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond these core skills, participants will focus on one of three tracks that will provide additional depth in specific area of analytics:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnalytical Tools: This track provides students with a greater understanding of the quantitative methodology of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics: how to select, build, solve, and analyze models using methodology such as parametric and non-parametric statistics, regression, forecasting, data mining, machine learning, optimization, stochastics, and simulation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBusiness Analytics: This track provides students with a deeper understanding of the practice of using analytics in business and industry: how to understand, frame, and solve problems in marketing, operations, finance, management of information technology, human resources, and accounting in order to develop and execute analytics projects within businesses.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EComputational Data Analytics: This track provides students with a deeper understanding of the practice of dealing with so-called \u201cbig data\u201d: how to acquire, preprocess, store, manage, analyze, and visualize data arriving at high volume, velocity, and variety.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnalytics is an important and quickly-growing field, and has quickly become a key facet of business strategy. The field is still new enough that its need has clearly outpaced the supply of students and will do so for the foreseeable future. With this new program, Georgia Tech will fill that gap by producing top graduates in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca title=\u0022www.analytics.gatech.edu\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.analytics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewww.analytics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has just announced a new interdisciplinary, one-year Master\u0027s in Analytics degree program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has just announced a new interdisciplinary, one-year Master\u0027s in Analytics degree program."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2014-05-21 09:33:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:29","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"298631":{"id":"298631","type":"image","title":"MS in Analytics Announcement Image","body":null,"created":"1449244552","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:52","changed":"1475895000","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:00","alt":"MS in Analytics Announcement Image","file":{"fid":"199477","name":"msanalyticssmallimage.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/msanalyticssmallimage_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/msanalyticssmallimage_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":137146,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/msanalyticssmallimage_0.jpeg?itok=0cenBvyN"}}},"media_ids":["298631"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}