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After three years as graduate program director of the Data Science and Business Analytics program, Dr. Chandra Subramaniam has announced his intention to step down from the position on July 1st, 2020. Dr. Subramaniam will become the chair of the Department of Business Information Systems & Operations Management in the Belk College of Business. The […]

The School of Data Science’s bachelor of science in data science degree is the first of its kind in Carolinas’, and as the University prepares for classes to begin this fall, SDS is thrilled to welcome the first class of data science niners into our new, innovative program. Before classes begin on Monday, September 7th, […]

As the United States battles a drastic resurgence in coronavirus cases, a group of UNC Charlotte researchers aggregated, analyzed and visualized publicly available COVID-19 data to produce an interactive dashboard in order to better understand the rapid spread of the virus. The project, facilitated by UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science, was funded by a […]

The School of Data Science (SDS) and UNC Charlotte’s Research and Economic Development are thrilled to announce the Ignite COVID-19 Flash Grants utilizing Twitter data associated with the global pandemic. SDS partnered with Twitter to acquire a data stream containing more than 50 million tweets per day, with the purpose of addressing research questions targeting […]

Health Informatics and Analytics and Master’s in Health Administration student, Timothy Sokphat, recently participated in the MIT COVID-19 Datathon, in which his team was chosen as a semi-finalist in the disparities in health outcomes from COVID-19 research track. The week-long virtual event hosted 30 teams of data scientists, clinicians, public health professionals and other subject […]

After three years as graduate program director of the Health Informatics and Analytics (HIA) program, Dr. Michael Thompson has announced his intention to step down from the position on June 30. The School of Data Science would like to thank Dr. Thompson for his years of service and leadership, as he was instrumental in the […]

Two graduate students from UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science master’s programs were selected to participate in the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellowship program. They are the first UNC Charlotte students to be selected to participate in the Silver Spring, MD, based program. As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) asset, […]

UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science (SDS) has accomplished many firsts in 2020, through establishing the first data science program in the Carolinas, as well as the first undergraduate degree of its kind in the state. Data Science is at the forefront of industry in the 21st century, as more and more companies and academic […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – April. 22, 2020 – UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science, North Carolina’s first undergraduate program in data science, is now enrolling undergraduate students for the fall semester. The program, the first of its kind to incorporate the liberal arts and sciences with technical data skills, allows the School of Data Science to […]

Since the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, the health care industry has used data science tools to monitor and mitigate the impact of the coronavirus that is at the heart of this pandemic. Researchers and data science professionals are using data to build accurate models of the virus’s spread, conduct antibody discovery and track […]