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Office: Knott Hall, Room 301e
Telephone: 410-617-5054
Website: https://www.loyola.edu/academics/data-science/

Director: Kevin Drummey

Data Science is a new field that sits at the nexus of computer science, statistics, and business. A data scientist identifies opportunities for organizations by determining and developing solutions to business challenges. Organizations need to make the most of their data, so data scientists are in great demand. A data scientist gleans knowledge and "actionable insights" from data to enable organizations to make data-driven decisions. The interdisciplinary data science major blends computer science and statistics courses with business courses to render students adaptable to any domain with rigorous statistical and computational skills.

Learning Aims

• Utilize descriptive and inferential methods to solve data intensive applied problems.
• Write computer programs in languages used for data science (e.g. Python, R) to collect, clean, and analyze data.
• Formulate data science questions and apply a variety of data analysis techniques for data discovery, description, prediction, and prescription.
• Communicate data science results in oral, written, and visual forms to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Advocate for ethical decisions in the use of data.

Programs

• Accelerated Bachelor's to MS in Data Science Program

• Data Science, BS

• Data Science Minor

Courses

• DS 303 - Discovering Information in Data
• DS 496 - Ethical Data Science Capstone

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