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According to Chair of Psychology Nancy Darling, the Data Sciences concentration emerged from meetings with other chairs from departments in the quantitative, natural, and social sciences.

All of us have really strong interest in data, but in really different ways, Darling said. Psychologists collect and play with data, and were really good at stats and things, but computer science is playing with different types of data.

Darling hopes the program will appeal to a range of students from a variety of backgrounds.

Data science is incredibly broad, so it should fit psychologists who are really good at building datasets and computer science models, and people who are doing artificial intelligence all of those are data science, she said.

Darling also emphasized the importance of experiential learning for students as they prepare to join the workforce and make decisions about what they want to do after college.

You dont know what youre interested in until you do it, she said.

The concentration requirements include taking five related courses that may come from a variety of departments such as Biology, Psychology, Computer Science, or Environmental Studies.

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Oberlin to Offer Five New Academic Programs - The Oberlin Review