The Institute brings industry leaders, academics and researchers together to create a unique program tailored to the career needs of professionals and students. Industry partners, including IBM, American Express, Red Hat, Oracle, Pfizer, UPS, Verisk Analytics, serve on the advisory board to address the need for advanced analytics talent in industry.
With our new state-of-the-art Data Science laboratory, the Institute seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaboration with students, faculty and industry at the frontiers of data analytics and big data. Students and faculty are advancing research to unlock the potential of data to transform our knowledge and thinking.
According to Glassdoor.com, Data Scientists lead the way for top jobs in America for 2017 based on earning potential, job satisfaction rating and number of job openings. CareerCast also reports the annual median salary for a Data Scientist as $128,240 with a growth outlook of 16%.
Data Science student Shah Shoib recently completed a patent analytics project, "Analyzing and Visualizing Patent Data Using Tableau Desktop."
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