the data science program covers the basics of the data velocity, data volume,
data veracity, and data variants and these are important because the quantity
and the speed of the data is increasing at a astronomical pace and our previous
tools the historical tools aren't keeping up with what we need them to do
data science has a lot of research opportunities data science being on the
horizontal vector has a lot of opportunities from computer science
statistics business like mechanical electrical and various of the speed the
professors are really helpful and helps the students contribute their skills to
the society
so from a business perspective I see data scientists as the people who are
able to take raw data and turn it into something valuable for the business to
generate insight from data that makes it so that the business can run and
function better. So I teach a course on information systems and data analytics
and in the course being a business course we try to focus on how we add
business values so we use projects within the course to allow students to
use their analytic skills their math skills and all those other fun skills
that they learn to generate value for a company the students reach out to
companies and find ways that they can analyze data and provide insight to the
company
the data science job market is one that I see growing substantially and the
wages are amazing at the at this time because it's a new skill that few people
have. It's a skill that if you are willing to put the time in and put the
effort in learn the hard material that there will be great benefit from it. So I
would encourage you to look into this career
the data science program here is very unique because it offers a lot of tracks and
data science has so many applications we may distract so what we have at your
stations are we on track for computer science we have a track for business and
for 90 it isn't same activity to court and it can be this one and a half two
years to complete this course
I'm cognitive scientist and my research uses computational mathematical and
computer based methods to study human cognition this is related to a lot of
areas data scientists go into including decision support AB testing user
experience modeling and things like that I teach two classes relevant to the data
science program they're called advanced stats one and two in the psychology
program and they're offered every other year they cover a lot of skills data
scientists need using the our statistical computing language the first
class advanced steps one covers topics on data management data visualization
and an inferential statistics using regression models and anova models the
second semester course event stats to goes beyond this looking at with justic
regression models and how they can be used for classification as well as
machine learning models and finally looking at more traditional multivariate
approaches like principal components analysis factor analysis and cluster
analysis
most of the students here in this program have a bachelor's degree background
either from computer science statistics on business if you have a good
programming skills or analytics or logical thinking that will be an
identical this program
our program consists of four core courses electives and then a domain of
your students choice the core courses consist of intro to data science
predictive modeling data mining and a business course in the MBA program
that's information systems and business data analytics so those courses will
provide the skills the technical acumen to get started with your electives
the successful data scientist is going to have a combination of skill sets some
of them technical and some non technical so things like curiosity inquisitive
nature tenacity so you want to have a student that's going to search for
solutions and spend their time to dive deep into a problem until they come up
with something that's executable
we also offer a graduate certificate program it's 15 credits and it involves
the basic core courses to develop the skill set and then one elective the
uniqueness of our program allows the student flexibility so what they're able
to do is after they take their core courses and get the fundamental skills
they're able to choose a domain that they would take elective courses to go
narrow and deep into something of interest to them