Data Science B S D S

A data scientist is a person who should be able to leverage existing data sources and create new ones as needed in order to extract meaningful information and actionable insights. These insights can be used to drive business decisions and changes intended to achieve business goals.

This is done through business domain expertise, effective communication and results interpretation, and utilization of any and all relevant statistical techniques, programming languages, software packages and libraries, data infrastructure, and so on.

The degree prepares students for work in various industrial, governmental, and business positions. Graduates will be able to:

-Conduct research on open-ended industry or organization questions
-Extract large volumes of data from both internal and external sources
-Clean and remove irrelevant data information from usable data
-Analyze data for weaknesses, trends, and/or opportunities
-Create algorithms to solve problems and build new automation tools