Data science is the study and practice of extracting information and structure from data that can then be used for reasoning and adding value to the solution of a problem. It has growing applications in health and medicine, finance, marketing, economics, genomics, social networks, cyber-security, journalism, and other fields where data is collected. It spans academic fields in computer science and mathematics such as machine learning and statistical inference, probability, linear algebra, computer programming, software engineering, high performance computing, and cloud computing. The B.S. in Data Science program has two options, Computing (in the Ying Wu College of Computing) and Statistics (in the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts).
