The Graduate Statistics Club and the Association for Women in Mathematics are excited to announce the first SoMSS Dodgeball Tournament! Come play dodgeball and board games with SoMSS faculty, staff, and students!

SoMSS Dodgeball Tournament
Saturday, April 15
11:00 to 4:00
SDFC - Maroon Gym
The tournament will very likely end before 4:00pm (leave when you wish!). Small foam dodgeballs will be used.

As with any fairly new term which is closely related to several others, data science means different things to different people. Experts and institutions use broader or narrower definitions and emphasize different aspects of data science. At ASU, data science is an interdisciplinary blend of mathematics, statistics and computer science, which applies scientific methods to extract information and provide an insight from (often large and noisy) data. An estimated shortage of up to 190,000 data analysts in the U.S.

Devil Data Science Club is a student organization which gathers students interested in data science and related areas. Apart from students from the Data Science BS program, this club has a variety of other majors, most notably computer science, engineering, business and mathematics, but also others, such as bioscience, behavioral and social sciences, geographic information science, etc.

Graduates with a BS in Data Science possess skills that are transferable to any industry or organization that requires a combination of analytical thinking and quantitative and programming skills. This includes: