Pitzer College

Data Science Minor

Data is everywhere. It is in every field, behind every decision by politicians, scientists, economists, etc. Modern Data Science is being used to not only understand the plethora of data that has already been collected, but also to create new data in a myriad of forms, including visual (e.g. new art forms) and audible. Data Science now includes such varied techniques as sentiment analysis of text, image recognition, word prediction, and topic modeling. Applications of Data Science are now inescapable: they range from almost every smartphone app that we use, to policy decisions of our government. It is not an overstatement to say that an understanding of Data Science is necessary for a true understanding of the way our modern world works.