Data Science BSc (Hons)

Data is increasingly driving how we earn, how we learn, what we do in our leisure time and even how we commit crime. This course will equip you to convert data into knowledge and to make the seemingly unintelligible accessible by the many, not the few. Our Data Science degree will open up the hidden world of data to you and give you the skills needed to turn raw data into powerful and profound patterns and stories. Every day vast amounts of data are created and collected as we go about our lives. Smart phones, the internet of things, online forms, internet shopping – they’re all tracking and recording our behaviour and creating masses of information.

The potential benefits of this information are enormous - but only if we have the ability to sort through it, analyse it and identify the processes underpinning it. Data Science is the set of methods, tools and knowledge used to unpick data and find the story behind it in reliable, robust and reproducible ways.

This is an exciting and emerging multi-disciplinary field with applications across almost every industry or aspect of life. Whether it is forecasting the spread of disease, teaching self-driving cars, predicting pedestrian flow at gigs and festivals, designing user-friendly websites, or preventing insurance fraud - data science has the answers.

Program Available At (Campus) - York campus