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High-Demand Business Intelligence Roles in Healthcare

Hiring managers are searching for candidates who understand business intelligence (BI) and data science to discover valuable—often life-saving—insights.

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How Much Do Data Scientists Need to Know about Statistics?

Statistics is an inherently necessary component of data science, but how much do data scientists really need to know about statistics?

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How to Get a Job in Data Science in a Remote Working World

Most data scientists have a master’s degree. A study by Burtch Works found that 91% of data scientists have at least a master’s degree, and 48% have PhDs. Therefore, it’s worth pursuing a master’s degree instead of a short course or boot camp.

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The Best SQL Jobs for a Data Scientist

Data science professionals have a difficult, yet rewarding job: analyzing multiple databases of structured and unstructured data to help create a product and improve services. If you’ve ever worked at an organization with multiple shared folders for collaboration, you have an idea of how messy data can become. Now multiply your internal database by a factor of 1,000, and you have an idea of what data science professionals need to digest, reorganize, and package to build a product or service. One of the most important tools in the arsenal of a data science professional in dealing with large datasets is SQL.

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Key Data Science Interview Questions: An Inside Look

Data science interviews are some of the most challenging in any industry. It’s not hard to see why. There are thousands of search results for “data science interview questions” and the resulting camaraderie developed on message boards, social networks and job review sites by anyone who’s gone through the process. The interview process can be long, and data scientists need to understand the business challenges of the company you’re interviewing for in addition to the technical.

Emily Cathey

Emily Cathey Brings a Humanities Perspective to Data Science

Emily Cathey completed an undergraduate degree in politics at UVA in three years and is currently completing an M.S. in Data Science. Throughout her undergraduate studies, Cathey noticed a common theme around statistical significance and wanted to better understand the story behind the numbers.

Student Spotlight
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New Students to M.S. in Data Science Bring Diversity of Perspective

This Summer, the two new cohorts of M.S. in Data Science students joined the School of Data Science. 59 students joined the residential program, and an additional 6 dual degrees joined the two year MSDS/MBA program in June. 21 students joined the online program in July.

Student Spotlight

Minor in Data Science

With an interdisciplinary focus and collaboration at the heart of the School of Data Science, creating an opportunity for undergraduate students at the University to pursue an education in Data Science has been a goal for a long time. To achieve this, the School of Data Science has created a minor in Data Science, which was officially approved in May.

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