What is Data Science?

Data Science encompasses the statistical and computational techniques, technologies, and methodologies developed to enable the most recent paradigm of discovery, i.e., data-driven discovery (aka Big Data), complementing the discovery paradigms of theory, experimentation, and simulation.

Data science is currently deployed as one of the main approaches for making a discovery in a wide set of applications in almost all academic disciplines and industry sectors, including health informatics, precision, and personalized medicine, engineering, business analytics, geosciences, social studies, intelligent transportation, and cybersecurity, to name a few. In turn, the demand for data science expertise has created a vast workforce shortage, reflecting the need for hundreds of thousands of data scientists in the U.S. alone.