Analytics describes the extensive use of data to guide evidence-based decision-making. This field has emerged during a time when massively large data sets are being collected throughout society. Analytics lives at the junction between numerous traditional disciplines including information systems and statistics.

This program will provide a framework for thinking about the collection and use of so-called "big data" and students will develop skills for handling structured and unstructured data sets and for developing models to predict behavior in data-rich environments.  The analytics program is truly interdisciplinary and provides a framework for thinking about the collection and use of data. The co-major will complement the pursuit of any major across the university.

Skills

• Learn a framework for thinking about the collection and use of “big data”
• Handle structured and unstructured data sets
• Develop models to predict behavior in data-rich environments