{"id":273,"date":"2018-07-30T16:27:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/what-is-data-science\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:10:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:10:02","slug":"what-is-data-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/what-is-data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Data Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12524\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Data-Science-2020-Sidebar-247x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Data-Science-2020-Sidebar-247x1024.png 247w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/06\/Data-Science-2020-Sidebar.png 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px\" \/>With companies generating more and more data each year, there is a growing demand for individuals who can\u00a0mine and interpret these data to drive growth and innovation.\u00a0At the end of 2017,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.linkedin.com\/2017\/december\/7\/the-fastest-growing-jobs-in-the-u-s-based-on-linkedin-data.\">LinkedIn identified the \u201cData Scientist\u201d job title<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as the second largest growth category on their platform, and a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burningglass.com\/research-project\/quant-crunch-data-science-job-market\/\">report from labor market analytics firm Burning Glass<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0projects that\u00a0the need for qualified data scientists will increase for\u00a0the\u00a0forseeable\u00a0future.<\/p>\n<p>It is not surprising that data scientists are in short supply. Data science requires a unique blend\u00a0of talents, including mathematical reasoning skills, technical skills in programming and visualization, domain expertise, and business competencies.<\/p>\n<p>The ASPIRE module in Data Science Essentials will provide a foundation in the programming and data analytics tools employed by data scientists, training in communication skills, and case studies in data science presented by professionals from a variety of industries. This is a program for biomedical scientists, developed in collaboration with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nashvillesoftwareschool.com\/\">Nashville\u00a0 Software School<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>with a grant from the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwfund.org\/grant-programs\/career-guidance\/career-guidance-trainees\/grant-recipients\">Burroughs Wellcome Fund<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With companies generating more and more data each year, there is a growing demand for individuals who can\u00a0mine and interpret these data to drive growth and innovation.\u00a0At the end of 2017,\u00a0LinkedIn identified the \u201cData Scientist\u201d job title\u00a0as the second largest growth category on their platform, and a\u00a0report from labor market analytics firm Burning Glass\u00a0projects that\u00a0the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-data-science"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12525,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions\/12525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}