The MSDS 2019 Student Council, an organization inaugurated in 2018, seeks to bridge the gap between MSDS students and DSI faculty and staff, and to provide opportunities for students to connect outside of the classroom.

The DSI formed an integral part of the team that brought the initiative to Grounds. 

The University of Virginia Data Science Institute is launching an online Master of Science in Data Science, with the inaugural cohort set to start in summer 2019.

In the last several years, a number of University of Virginia graduates have joined the ranks of sports analytics professionals, crunching numbers for Major League Baseball teams.

Prof. Eric Field (Architecture) held the 2018 Data Viz Presentation Day at the Data Science Institute earlier this month.

UVA undergraduate Soukarya Ghosh on participating in the statewide NVTC University Challenge, a hackathon competition addressing veteran suicide.

The DSI's Practice of Data Science seminar-style course features a variety of guest speakers discussing how data science can be applied in the field and focuses on preparing students for professional work in data science.

This past January the University of Virginia Data Science Institute (DSI) partnered with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) for a career trek to the San Francisco Bay Area.