BA/BS in Data Analytics

Data Visualization at the University of Washington Bothell is offered with a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science option. The major focuses on managing databases, analyzing and visualizing data, and information systems, using numerical and descriptive methods alike. Students learn to spot trends, draw out insights and show the social effects of different kinds of data, while working critically with visualization software and programming languages. Graduates can enter statistics, visual analytics, and the geographic information sciences and systems. The curriculum advances the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences learning objectives: applying statistical and mathematical tools, choosing suitable methods for a data set, communicating results visually, and working in interdisciplinary teams on issues of social and planetary justice. Programming courses such as an introduction through animated storytelling appear in the curriculum list.