This Module can only be taken as a Short Course for Credit.
For more information please go to the 'Upgrade to a professional qualification' section.


This course will provide an understanding of the processes by which organisations and individuals can gain insight and actionable intelligence from data.

At a glance

  • Dates
    • 10 - 14 Feb 2025
    • 24 - 28 Mar 2025
  • Duration5 days face to face learning (with additional distance learning to be completed during 7 weeks)Ìý
  • LocationÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ at Shrivenham
  • Cost£2,350 Concessions available

Course structure

The course has an initial distance learning component, lasting three weeks, which will provide students with the background knowledge and understanding required for the course. The taught phase of the course, lasting 5 days, will contain a mixture lectures, research case studies and group working.

What you will learn

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

  • Assess and explain value of Artificial Intelligence solutions to an organisation,
  • Appraise current practices for decision support in organisations,
  • Contrast methods of analysing data to enable business intelligence,
  • Assess the appropriateness of big data for organisational decision-making.

Core content

  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
  • Data mining pipeline,
  • Big Data models for exploring data,
  • Data Science.

Upgrade to a professional qualification

After successful completion of this Short Course for Credit, 10 credit points can be put towards either the Cyber Defence and Information Assurance MSc, Cyberspace Operations MSc, Information Capability Management MSc or Defence and Security (Technology) MSc.

 Find out more about short course credit points.




Who should attend

This course is suitable for those involved in the leveraging data for business decisions, in addition to those involved in the storage and management of data.

 


Concessions

A limited number of MOD sponsored places are available. 

Location and travel

 

Security clearance

Some ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ short courses are delivered at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham which is a Ministry of Defence (MoD) site.  All applicants to courses that are wholly or partially delivered at Shrivenham, must hold a security clearance to UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) level or higher.

Applicants who do not hold this level of security will be asked to complete a BPSS clearance application, if attending for more than 10 days in any one year. If attending for less than 10 days in any one year, the BPSS clearance will not be required, but the completed short course application form will be passed to the MoD for vetting.  

This information will be returned by the MoD to ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ after checks are completed and copies will not be retained by the MoD.  BPSS checks may involve confirmation of the following:

  • Identity (such as photo ID)
  • Nationality, including Dual and immigration status
  • Employment/academic history (covering the past three years)
  • Criminal record (unspent convictions only).

This process may be revised from time to time dependent on national security requirements.  For more details, please consult the .  It will take additional time to process your BPSS clearance application once you have completed your course application.

PLEASE NOTE: The MoD has ultimate discretion over admission to the Shrivenham site. If you are not able to access the Shrivenham site because of a failure to meet security clearance requirements, your application to attend the short course will be declined.



How to apply

To apply for this course please use the online application form.

Read our Professional development (CPD) booking conditions.