{"id":675,"date":"2021-01-25T18:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T23:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlhamcollege.wpengine.com\/?page_id=675"},"modified":"2024-08-21T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:44:43","slug":"data-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/academics\/majors-minors-programs\/data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Data science is a relatively new interdisciplinary area of study that combines knowledge and skills from statistics, mathematics and computer science in novel ways to address a broad range of real-world applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A data scientist finds solutions to problems using data from a multitude of different sources. These sources include not only different disciplinary domains and channels, but also a variety of platforms such as cell phones, social media, e-commerce outlets, medical datasets, internet searches, and more. Thus, a data scientist must cultivate skills in all the areas related to working with large, complex datasets, and produce the information necessary for planning, forecasting, and decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n