Programme Structure

Extensive focus on data science, machine learning and programming

• Fundamentals of programming.
• Data handling.
• Statistical modelling.
• Classification.
• Regression.
• Neural networks.
• Forecasting.
   

Multidisciplinary perspectives on data science

• Data-driven business strategies.
• Ethical aspects.
• Legal aspects.
• Political aspects. 
• Micro- and macroeconomic aspects.

3,580,1.00 Fall Semester: Workshop Fundamentals of Data Science

• Handling of datasets using the Python programming language;
• Preparing data for analysis
• Producing graphs and using visualizing tools
• Estimating statistical models
• Assessing the performance of statistical models
• Classification and regression models
• Linear and logistic regression
• Tree models (regression trees, random forests, boosting)
• Neural networks

4,580,1.00 Spring Semester: Multidisciplinary perspectives on data science

• Data-driven business strategies
• Ethical aspects
• Legal aspects
• Political aspects
• Micro- and macroeconomic aspects
• Data science in insurance and finance

For the elective courses of the DSF programme, you can choose from the courses listed here.

Most courses offered in the Spring Term or Fall Term will be offered in future again; but we cannot guarantee the course implementation in future. New courses will be added on a rolling basis.

Participants starting the DSF program in Fall can choose courses offered in the same semester and later at their BA-level.

• You are encouraged to make use of the various exchange programmes the university offers and it is possible to get credits for courses taken during your exchange.
• Please inquire about crediting of non-HSG courses with the admissions office. You will need to provide information about the course (course fact sheet, syllabus, ECTS, etc.).
• You may contact the DSF programme before chosing your courses so that we can pre-check whether your chosen courses can be credited towards the DSF certificate.
• If you start the DSF programme in your 5th semester, no exchange is possible neither in your 5th nor in your 6th semester!

Both compulsary courses and the vast majority of the elective courses are taught in English