Specialised data science programmes aim to address talent gap and rising demand for data professionals in Malaysia YBhg Dato’ Yasmin Mahmood, Chief Executive Officer of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) is giving her welcome speech during Big Data Week 2015. KUALA LUMPUR, 21 April, 2015 – Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), lead agency in driving the National Big Data Analytics (BDA) Initiative, today announced support from seven public and private institutes of higher learning in Malaysia to offer data science courses to university students, graduates and working professionals for careers in data analytics. To support and facilitate the demands of the local Data Analytics industry, these universities will be offering undergraduate and post-graduate data science and computer science courses with data and business analytics specialisations, starting July 2015 onwards. The institutes of higher learning are Asia Pacific University (APU), Malaysia Multimedia Univer