S P Jain School of Management launches Certificate Program in Big Data and Analytics

Analytics and Big Data are the hottest skillsets in the current market. As companies plan to adopt Analytics, there has been a sudden surge in requirement for analytics professionals. To meet this supply side talent deficit, several courses are being introduced by leading institutes and B-school worldwide. SP Jain joins in by introducing full time and part time Certificate program in Big Data and Analytics (BDAP) at its Mumbai campus. The course is being offered at S P Jain’s spanking new campus at Lower Parel, which boasts of State of the art facilities, in the heart of the city’s business center. BDAP is designed to explore, analyze and unravel the complex, unstructured data-driven world. The program kicks of with 10 core courses that build a strong foundation for the second stage of the program, which incorporates more in-depth and application-based learning. Given the need for specialist knowledge, it provides a range of courses in topics like data mining, machine learning, visualization techniques, predictive modeling, and statistics. The programme content builds on basic concepts, teaches tools and technologies that are currently prevalent in industry and progresses to cutting edge-topics like machine learning and Natural Language Processing. On completion of the program students would have learned to apply quantitative modeling and data analysis techniques to solve real world business problems, successfully present results using data visualization techniques, demonstrate knowledge of statistical data analysis techniques utilized in business decision-making, apply principles of Data Science to the analysis of business problems, use data mining software to solve real-world problems and employ cutting edge tools and technologies to analyze Big Data. The program is delivered by a faculty that is an equal mix of academicians and industry practitioners with a key proportion of overseas instructors thus lending the course a global perspective. “Big Data & Analytics is set to become the next game-changer in IT and will have a revolutionary impact on every business, whether big or small, in more than one way since it can provide inputs to improve businesses on all key dimensions.” – says Dr. Mahendra Mehta (Managing Director, Neural Techsoft), program director of BDAP. This program equips students to fill the need for sophisticated expertise in varied domains such as IT, Consulting, BFSI, Telecom and Media and in specializations like data mining, data modeling, data architecture, extraction, transformation, loading development and business intelligence development. The acquired techniques are increasingly essentially required for roles like Data Scientists, Analysts, Developers and Consultants. The programme is being offered in two formats. The full time format will have a total classroom contact hours of 400 and will be delivered on Weekdays for duration of 6 months. The Part time format will also have a 400 contact hours but will be delivered only on weekends for duration of 12 months. Participants can apply online: http://www.spjain.org/big-data/apply_online-mumbai.aspx For more information refer: http://www.spjain.org/big-data/index.aspx Watch the workshop conducted by SP Jain at CYPHER2015, Analytics India Summit [youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tDy8LvX0UI"]