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.

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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