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Ritwick Banerjee Wins Best Poster Award at 2025 Data Science Poster Fair
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Banerjee was honored for his project, "Mood Maps: Causal effects of moods - Depression, Mania and more".
Data Science MS Student Abigail Stokes Earns Fulbright Scholarship
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MS student Abigail Stokes talks about receiving the Fulbright Scholarship.
CS&E Students Win Novice Division at 2023 MinneMUDAC Challenge
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CS&E students Charlie Hart, Jack Rogers, Kennedy Johnson, and Tom Bareket won the top prize in the novice division of the 2023 MinneMUDAC Challenge competition.
University of Minnesota Data Science M.S. Program Ranked Third in Nation
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Fortune Magazine recently ranked the University of Minnesota's M.S. Data Science the third best program in the nation. Read more about the value of a data science master's degree.
CS&E Data Scientists Create First-of-its-kind Lakes and Reservoirs Dataset
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CS&E data scientists led an interdisciplinary research team to publish a comprehensive global dataset of lakes and reservoirs, tracking changes over the last 30+ years.
How to become a data scientist at a Big Tech company
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Specific technical knowledge is needed to become a data scientist, and a master’s degree in a quantitative field—while not always required—is a good way to upgrade your skills.
Bob Sturm was awarded the "People's Choice Award" at the Spring 2022 Data Science Poster Fair
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Data Science master's student Bob Sturm was awarded the "People's Choice Award" at the Spring 2022 Data Science Poster Fair for his project, "Towards Efficient IACT Calibration with Deep learning-based Muon Identification".
CS&E makes big showing at IEEE BigData 2021
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Seven papers from faculty, students, and alumni were accepted to the top tier research conference in Big Data.
Analyzing big data to understand the developing brain
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Data science graduate faculty Mark Fiecas co-leads the analytics core at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB).
Kumar's climate work featured on Minnesota Public Radio
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MPR interviewed Vipin Kumar about how the new NSF-funded climate modeling center will help improve future models.