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MSc Agricultural & Food Data Management

The Master of Science "Agricultural & Food Data Management" is at the interface between high technology and agriculture & food. This ranges from the processing of data retrieved by connected objects such as drones, satellites, tablets, telephones, data on the behavior of players in a sector, to the management and analysis of massive data for decision support.


By 2020, Big Data will be revolutionizing business, whether in management, R&D or marketing. The rapid development of digital technology is creating a new business for agriculture, and calling for new skills. The aim of the Master of Science is to train Data Scientists for the agricultural and agri-food sectors.

Presentation

Objectives

  • Forge expertise in Big Data management, which has become a key factor in business performance and growth;
  • Acquire computer and statistical techniques, data mining and machine learning applied to agriculture and the food industry, with a particular focus on precision agriculture;
  • Developing a good command of statistical software and programming languages will be a real strength for students interested in research and development in fields such as plant nutrition and plant and animal epidemiology.

Key information

  • Course duration: 12 months
  • Language of instruction: English
  • Recruitment from Bac+4 / Bachelor / Licence + professional experience
  • Admission: initial training, professional/alternative contracts, continuing education
  • Training location: Rouen
  • Tuition fees: consult here

The training program

  • TU1 - Agriculture, Food Science and Big Data
    • An overview of AgTech and Food Science
    • Sociology and digital transformation
  • TU2 - IT Data Management
    • Excel spreadsheets
    • Databases and SQL
    • Project management
  • TU3 - Marketing and Business Analytics 
    • Data marketing
    • Business strategy and datavisualization
  • TU4 - Data Analysis applied to Food Science
    • Data Analysis
    • Data Mining
  • TU5 - Software Engineering
    • Excel programming, VBA
    • Advanced programming
  • TU6 - Survey Methods
    • Unstructured Data, Multiple Correspondance Analysis
    • Survey Consumers data Analysis, text mining & NLP
  • TU11 - Cross fields
    • AgoraJob / Professional CV
    • French foreign language
  • TU7 - Connected A g &Food
    • Precision agriculture
    • GIS Software, image processing
  • TU8 - Big data, IoT and property rights
    • Massive data processing and IoT
    • IT security and data property rights
  • TU9 - Machine Learning Methods
    • Machine learning and deep learning
    • Modeling
  • TU10 - Data Project for Agriculture & Food Science
  • TU11 - Cross fields
    • AgoraJob / Professional CV
    • French foreign language
  • Four-month internship as part of an internship agreement or professional training contract with companies such as NatUp, SODIAAL, Promize (ISAGRI), Evolution XY or Agrial Maïsadour.
  • A 4-week assignment set by the company and supervised by professionals

Jobs and career opportunities

  • Data Scientist - Data Miner
  • Chief Data Officer
  • Master Data manager
  • Data designer
  • Data / Business Analyst
  • Designer-developer
  • Epidemiologist (animal and plant)
  • Animal health observatory manager
  • Agronomy research officer
  • Agricultural machinery designer
  • Consultant

Documents

Admissions - Rouen campus