Data science and economics (DSE)

Politics & International Studies

  • Degree: Graduate
  • Language: English

Graduates of this Master degree will receive advanced training on methodologies and IT tools, quantitative and methodological notions, to interpret and analyze economic phenomena using approaches that integrate business, market and social media data. Among these, the analysis of the effects of policies (economic, social) or the evaluation of actions (investments, marketing campaigns) and any other activity related to the sectors of economy, marketing, business and finance or social sciences.

The course of study provides for the construction of solid methodological bases through the development of topics of economic theory, decision theory under uncertainty conditions, micro-econometric techniques and analysis of time series. It also provides for the study of new data management technologies and scalability of analysis systems in cloud environments, as well as machine learning techniques for the extraction and classification of information.