Expanding Your Understanding of Data
This Data Science program allows you to take classes from a Mathematics core and a Computer Science core. These classes will give you a practical foundation to data science through the data analysis cycle of data acquisition, cleaning, transforming, modeling, and interpretation.
You will start by employing modern tools and languages to access, interpret, analyze, and visualize data. All students in the Data Science major will choose to do an in-depth study of either data structure and algorithms, machine learning, or database systems. These tools will help you convey the important properties of coding, task workflows, databases, and data issues—ideas that go beyond the traditional disciplines of mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
In addition to the math and computer science concepts in Data Science classes, you will study principles of data visualization from graphic design and cognitive science. You will also learn to adapt to new questions, communicate assessments and results, create efficient workflows and data management systems, and work within the bounds of big data ethics. Your chosen concentration area–Chemistry, Political Science, Sociology, or Systems–will frame a deep understanding and application of Data Science.