Data science is a rapidly expanding discipline providing students with interesting career paths that are in high demand. While most students are employable with an undergraduate degree in data science, there are many opportunities for advanced study. The data science program provides students a foundation in aspects of computer science, statistics, and mathematics that are important for analyzing and extracting information from large and complex data sets.
Why Study Data Science at Juniata?
Learn from experts in many fields: Juniata’s data science program integrates the study of computer science, statistics and mathematics. Some courses are team-taught by professors from several of these areas of expertise, which helps you identify your specific interests in data science. Data science techniques can be applied to data from any field of study.
Develop a specialization: Data Science can be applied to any field that has data and that is every field. The data science POE requires you to take 12 credits in a different area (the cognate area) in which you are interested in applying your data science. Possible cognate areas include business, biology, chemistry, psychology, politics, history, or environmental sciences.
Gain experience: Students will take the Data Science Consulting class, a class where they will analyze data for a real client. This class or data related research in another field will prepare students to do internships. Recent internships of data science students include Mutual Benefit Group, Juniata College Advancement, Excela Health and Samsung’s AI lab.
A Sampling of Courses
Machine Learning
Big Data
Intro to Data Science
Discrete Structures
Calculus I
Linear Algebra
Intro to Probability and Statistics
Multivariate Stats
Comp Science I
Database Management Systems
Information Visualization
Data Acquisition
DS Consulting (writing)
Statistical Consulting
12 credits in a cognate area
Bio/Psychology/Environmental Science/Business
Our Recent Graduates
Outcomes: Roy Liberman, JC ’19, business analytics with a secondary emphasis in data science. Has a job offer according to Sally Oberle with whom he interned in Spring 2019.
Olivia Kruse, JC’ 19, psychology data analyst at Gloo in Boulder. As a Data Scientist, she works in data modeling to apply to Gloo’s Insights Platform and Data Science Solutions. She works with clients, works with other data scientists as well as coding for turnkey analysis.
Fabien Delattre, international student who went to Juniata for Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 from ISEN in Lille France in a computer science program. Attending a masters in data science program at Amherst in the fall. Currently doing an internship at Samsung’s AI lab in Paris.