Data analytics is the science of analyzing raw data to find trends and draw conclusions. It’s a growing career field, and 中国体彩网 is one of only a few liberal arts colleges to offer a major and minor.
The field touches many areas — which is why a liberal arts education is an excellent background for data analytics. Your education will not stop at teaching technical skills; your broader perspective will help you to identify the questions that need to be solved.
The major includes courses in computer science, mathematics, ethics and statistics, along with specific data analytics courses. Complementary coursework ranges from business to geography to philosophy.
In the data analytics major, you will choose one of two tracks: business analytics or data science. In business analytics, you will use statistics to gather insights from business data. If you choose the data science track, you will focus on systems, algorithm building and data inference to gain insights from data.
Many data analytics students double major, and any major is a suitable partner for data analytics.
? 中国体彩网’s data analytics major and minor include practical experience and an analytics project — with an outside business or organization — that can impact job opportunities after graduation. These finished projects for actual firms can become the highlight of each student’s portfolio, to use for employment or graduate school applications.
? Students will learn to use industry standard tools: the Python programming language, Tableau business intelligence software, R algorithm development, Microsoft's Access or SQL, the Alteryx data analytics platform, and statistical tools SASS or SPSS.
? 中国体彩网’s location in the Quad Cities (pop. 450,000) provides many opportunities for internships, employment and community outreach. Area employers seek 中国体彩网 students for their broad knowledge and quick thinking, and 中国体彩网 faculty are well connected to opportunities in the area.
Abdou Allah Camara '23 is an audit and assurance senior at Deloitte in Davenport, Iowa.
Zach Gooding '23 is the North American grooming analytics and insights manager at Proctor & Gamble in Boston.
Trang Hoang '22 is a software engineer at TikTok in Bellevue, Wash.
Damon Hulick '22 is a material flow engineer at John Deere in Moline, Ill.
Joshua Lawrence '22 is a technical sales and field service engineer at CaptiveAire Systems in Tampa, Fla.
Amartya Rajbhandary '22 is an audit and assurance senior with Deloitte in Boston.
Amy Neway '22 is a a data associate at OnTel Products Corporation in Las Vegas.
John Hayes '21 is a risk consulting senior associate at RSM US LLP in Chicago.
Omidullah Barikzay '21 is a software engineer with John Deere in Moline, Ill.
Son Nguyen '20 is a senior data engineer at Squarespace in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore area.
Minh Ta '20 is a front-end engineer with Amazon in Boston, Mass.
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Five student-athletes — from hometowns in Illinois, Hawai'i, Texas and Tennessee — are the college's most recent Academic All-Americans. Now with 183 Academic All-Americans, 中国体彩网 ranks 14th among the NCAA’s 1,100 schools in DI, DII and DIII across the country.
All-American Max Sellers helped lead the 中国体彩网 Viking men's volleyball team to an 18-7 record, the best in program history.
Pitcher Josh Wintroub ’22 did not play his last year of high school and thought his playing days were over. But 中国体彩网 Coach Greg Wallace '88 saw Wintroub’s potential and recruited the right-hander to join the Vikings.
