The department of statistics and operations research, better known as STOR, will introduce a data science minor in fall 2021 that is designed to appeal to students majoring in a broad array of disciplines. The minor is an important component of the soon-to-launch data science initiative, a pan-University effort.
When people hear “data science,” they might think of tech jobs: programming the algorithms that generate the ads that pop up on social media or the statistical analysis used to predict online behavior. Research scientists of course use data science in such diverse fields as genomics, astronomy, mathematics and neuroscience. But data science is applicable to a wide variety of social science and humanistic fields where numbers-crunching, analysis and data interpretation are required. Think of the journalist or political scientist scrutinizing election trends, the geographer mapping climate change, the demographer tracking census results over time, the linguist working with