Illinois Wesleyan University's Data Science minor provide students with practical, hand-on, experience to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to use the methods and techniques of Data Science to address many different kinds of real-world problems. Students with a minor in Data Science develop skills in:

• Algorithmic / computational thinking
• Communication (written and verbal)
• Data curation / management
• Ethics (privacy, data access, control)
• Machine learning
• Process / reproducibility
• Programming
• Statistics / statistical inference
• Visualization

Minor Requirements

• CS 125/DASC125 - Introduction to Computer and Data Sciences
• DASC 225 - Data Analytics with Visualization
• One statistics course: MATH 141, MATH 325, ECON 227, PSYC 227, or BIOL 323 
• CS 377/DASC 377 - Applied Data Analysis
• DASC 395 - Directed Study: Data Science Capstone

Course Substitutions

The following approved substitutions may count toward the minor if any of the five required courses are counted toward a student’s major:

• CS 314: Database Systems
• ECON 328: Applied Econometrics
• ECON 338: Time Series Analysis
• MATH 215: Linear Algebra
• MATH 403: Computational Data Analysis