The Data Science BS is a new interdisciplinary program offered in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics to train data scientists to provide essential insights for today’s data-driven businesses.

A degree in data science provides students with skills for acquiring, managing, visualizing, mining, and modeling data. Students learn tools and techniques for working with big data and using machine learning for making predictions.

Data scientists provide insight and predictions from data, so data scientists can find work in research labs, startups, corporations, universities, governments, and nonprofits.

For students who want to add some of the skill set of a data scientist without taking the major, the Data Science Minor can be the ticket to a better future.

• Know how to collect, clean, anonymize, and manage data from different sources in a convenient system for analysis.
• Understand issues and solutions for storing, managing, and analyzing large-scale data sets. Apply techniques to understand, visualize, identify, and communicate trends in data.
• Identify appropriate tools, algorithms, mathematical techniques and models to perform desired analysis; understanding limitations and pitfalls.
• Know what questions can be asked within an appropriate ethical, legal, and Christian framework.
• Respect individual rights and privacy when collecting and handling human data. Consider the implications of decisions made using data.