In our data-driven world, information is now being collected at an unprecedented speed and scale. According to IBM, more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated a day. From predicting trends to protecting personal information, companies around the world need data scientists to process, explore and harness meaning from their data. Data insights drive decision-making on everything from healthcare and product design to marketing and finance. This major focuses on data and scientific computation. Through a combination of practical and theoretical units, you'll develop an understanding of how to use technology for efficient and effective data collection, conversion, analysis, visualisation and interpretation. You'll learn how to integrate new technologies to create science, engineering and business systems, and how to design useful and usable software. The practical computing and information technology skills that you acquire will greatly complement knowledge and skills acquired in science, arts, business and engineering majors. Content in this major is delivered through lectures by world-renowned experts in the field, tutorials with your peers and practical laboratory classes where you will put your theoretical knowledge into practice using the latest technologies.

Career Pathways As organisations around the world implement data analytics programs, the demand for data scientists is only set to increase. Opportunities exist in areas such as energy and resources engineering, bioinformatics and biochemistry, computational physics and astronomy, transportation, health, finance, marketing, geophysics, geographic information systems and biomechanics.