Data Science & Statistics

Data Science & Statistics

The minor in data science & statistics prepares students to address the challenges of collecting, understanding, and presenting structured and unstructured data from a variety of different domains and contexts. Minor RequirementsCourses
Data Science Minor Receives Project for Peace Grant
Anush Margaryan, a senior from Avshar, Armenia, ran a STEM camp this summer for refugees in Armenia. Margaryan, a Richmond Scholar who is majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology and minoring in data science, says growing up in a small village made it difficult to find resources and mentors in STEM, and she hoped to provide this access to displaced Armenian youth.
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Upcoming Course for Spring 2025

Title: Applied Survival Analysis, DSST 395 

Description: This course will introduce analysis strategies for time-to-event data. Topics covered will include appropriate strategies for characterization and visualization of time-to-event trends, as well as strategies for formal comparison of time-to-event trends between groups. Survival analysis is typically applied to health-related research questions, but skills gained in this course will also be applicable to other fields including environmental, business, and marketing-related research questions positioned to assess time-to-event outcomes.

Data Visualization Grant-Funding

Statistics professor Taylor Arnold and digital humanities professor Lauren Tilton recently received grant funding for two data science projects. They received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project, an open-source technology for the computational analysis of visual culture. Arnold and Tilton have also received a nearly $325K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a project to build open-source software for collecting and analyzing digital images.

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Faculty Highlights

Dr. Stephanie Spera
Spera awarded tenure and promotion

Stephanie Spera was promoted to associate professor of geography, environment, & sustainability. Her research seeks to understand landscape-level human-environment feedbacks regarding social, economic, and environmental drivers and consequences. 

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Dr. Taylor Arnold
Arnold Awarded

Taylor Arnold, professor of data science and statistics, received the 2024 Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.

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Dr. Lauren Craig Tilton
Tilton Promoted & Named Robins Professor

Lauren Tilton was promoted to professor of digital humanities and was appointed the E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts. Tilton specializes in analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.

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Dr. Taylor Arnold
Arnold Promoted

Taylor Arnold was promoted to professor of data science and statistics. Arnold’s research is fundamentally interdisciplinary and contributes to the fields of Digital Humanities (DH) and Cultural Analytics through his expertise as a mathematician and data scientist.

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