The mission and vision of the Department of Data Science.
The Mission of the Department of Data Science is to
Educate students in a field that has ushered in a once-in-a-generation revolution, comparable to the industrial revolution and the original computing revolution.
Provide an environment for leading edge research that has a strong and rapid impact on the economy and that reestablishes New Jersey as a world leader in technological advancement.
Create a source of scholarship on the many technical, ethical, and privacy issues that ubiquitous data creation is constantly confronting us with.
Establish a center of technology knowledge and a "go to organization" to service data creators, providers, managers, curators, and users of the State and the Nation.
Vision Statement:
The data revolution has created novel challenges and unprecedented opportunities. The vision of the Department of Data Science is to create a first-class academic department that trains the next generation of students as data scientists who will solve these grand challenges and innovate through world-class research to take advantage of these opportunities.
