Data Analytics

Big data presents a big opportunity. From marketing to accounting to biology, data analysis allows individuals to draw meaningful insights and devise solutions from complex and often disparate sources.

Emmanuel's minor in Data Analytics minor is designed to bring you into the already-arriving future where data-driven research and insights run nearly every facet of society. From biology and chemistry to psychology and business data science practices are being integrated to power the next generation of workers, researchers, and leaders. Graduates with experience in data analytics will be sought after in any field where digital information is collected and analyzed to generate insights.  

Workplace roles are changing fast and becoming more fluid—it's not just a role of the data analyst to provide insights anymore. Anyone from marketers to sales professionals in industries from retail and consumer goods to financial services and nonprofits are becoming more data savvy. According to Udemy, organizations building data-driven cultures was one of the top 5 workplace learning trends for 2020, while 52 percent of employers named technical skills such as data science and computer programming their top priority when hiring this year.

Minor Requirements

View the 2022-2023 Academic Catalog to find course titles, numbers and descriptions.

Requirements for a minor in Data Analytics

  • 1. IDDS1000 Digital Citizenship(SI)(SS)
  • 2. IDDS1101 Introduction to Programming (QA)(QR)
  • 3. IDDS2201 Data Analytics
  • 4. IDDS2132 Practical Machine Learning
  • 5.ART2132 Data Visualization(AI-A)(VCI)
  • 6. Choose one elective:
  • BIOL3151 Exercise Physiology
  • CHEM2104 Analytical Chemistry
  • COMM2512 Research Methods for Communication & Media
  • COMM3708 Digital Culture and Social Media Promotion
  • MKTG3110 Marketing Research
  • PHIL1116 Ethics in Science (M) (ER)
  • PSYCH2802 Methods & Statistics II (QA)
  • SOC2103 Qualitative Methods
  • SOC2104 Quantitative Methods (QR)
  • SOC4998 Community Action Research

Learning Goals & Outcomes

Students minoring in Data Analytics will develop:

  1. Techniques for collecting, storing, cleaning, and processing data. 
  2. Mathematical and logical techniques for analyzing, modeling and exploring data.
  3. Hands-on experience interrogating large data sets.
  4. Experience developing and substantiating hypotheses using large data sets.
  5. Awareness of recent social, political and economic change due to the use of data-oriented technologies in nearly all facets of society.
  6. Understanding of how data science skills can be applid to their major discipline.
  7. Competency with R and JavaScript programming.
  8. Experience using machine learning and artifical intelligence to solve problems.

Explore Emmanuel

Learn More
Research Spotlight: Economics Education on a Global Scale

As her research in economics education has focused on innovation in the classroom and finding ways to help students apply economic theories to real-world situations, students are vital in every aspect to Associate Professor of Economics Rebecca Moryl’s work.

Learn More
Robert Columbus '20: The Idea Man

Robert’s interest in the workings of the wider world grew in 2011 as the Arab Spring became international news. “I love history,” he said, “so knowing the history of the states as well as their current affairs made their actions and interactions much more interesting to me.”

Learn More
Learn More
Learn More
Learn More
Learn More
Featured Faculty: Rebecca Moryl

Dr. Rebecca Moryl is an Associate Professor of Economics at Emmanuel College. Professor Moryl teaches on subjects including microeconomics, economic relations, the politics of international economic relations and urban economics. She believes that understanding economics is critical to understanding the worlds-big and small-in which we live.

Learn More
Saints Spotlight: Maan Alawa '17

Management major Maan Alawa '17 got a taste of the world of hospitality—and award-winning company culture—through his HR internship with Kimpton Hotels.

Learn More
Learn More
Learn More
Learn More

Let's Get Started.

Emmanuel is a place where students broaden their sense of what’s possible and prepare for inspiring careers in an ever-changing world. Be here.