Connecting Data Science to ‘Almost Every Domain of Inquiry’

Inside Higher Ed: If you don’t believe that big data and artificial intelligence are here to stay, just ask Alexa: “What academic disciplines this fall are driving two major research universities to reorganize?”

The University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are doing just that, creating entirely new institutions within their campuses to come to terms with the ubiquity of data and the rise of AI -- and to accommodate a surge in popularity that these fields are generating among students and employers.

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