Dec 12, 2024  
Butler University Bulletin 2024-2025 
    
Butler University Bulletin 2024-2025

Data Science (BA or BS)


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We are drowning in a veritable sea of data. In today’s technology-driven society, we generate and consume data at a staggering rate. Almost any decision we can imagine involves data, and lots of it: looking up a restaurant or product review, detecting anomalies in telescopic data, evaluating patient adherence to prescription drugs, or analyzing the behavior of customers to loss-leader products embedded in Q3 earnings for a major retailer. Data science can do this and much, much more.

Data science is a rapidly growing field that offers the background necessary to tackle those questions and more. It offers an exciting blend of statistical inquiry, analysis, and interpretation, combined with computational processing and algorithmic techniques to leverage domain-specific data into actionable and well-informed decision-making.

Requirements for the Major


Students may complete the Data Science major by earning a C- or better in the following courses:

Suggested 4 Year Schedule


First Two Years


First Year


Second Year


Fall

Spring

Third and Fourth Years-Fall of Third Year is Odd Numbered


Third Year (odd fall/even spring)


Fourth Year (even fall/odd spring)


Third and Fourth Years-Fall of Third Year is Even Numbered


Third Year (even fall/odd spring)


Fourth Year (odd fall/even spring)


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