ILS 23000, Data Science and Society: Ethical, Legal, Social Issues This course provides an introduction to Ethical, Legal, Social Issues (ELSI) in Data Science. Students will be introduced to ...

This course focuses on developing the foundational skills of a modern data scientist including data cleaning, wrangling, visualization, and communication. Students will actively engage with R and ...

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain ...

Google does everything from building smartphones to creating driverless car companies. So it’s easy to forget that its official mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally ...

AI systems are only as fair and safe as the data they’re built on. While conversations about AI ethics often focus on model architecture, algorithmic transparency or deployment oversight, fairness and ...

As companies collect more data than ever before, the need for professionals who can make sense of business data is growing too. Managing complex, growing datasets makes data literacy knowledge ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

Many learners start with Excel to clean data, organize sheets, and understand reporting basics. Tableau becomes useful once ...