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New Building to Create ‘Unified Complex’ for Bowers CIS
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The New Building

New Building to Create ‘Unified Complex’ for Bowers CIS

Site work has begun on the state-of-the-art academic building for the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
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Message from Department Chair, James Booth

In SDS, our renowned faculty leverage collaborations across Cornell to develop and combine modern statistics methodology and machine learning with data science to advance the biological, physical, and social sciences.
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Students can now choose new minor in data science

Students from throughout the university can now minor in data science, a field that faculty say has become increasingly important for students in nearly any major, from humanities and social sciences to sciences, engineering and math.
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The Department of Statistics and Data Science’s academic and research programs take advantage of Cornell University's extensive resources, drawing from many colleges and research groups. Specializations in our department are vast and include statistical science, social statistics, and biometry and range from computational statistics and machine learning to statistical methods for astrophysics, genomics, medicine, legal studies, and much more.

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Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit

The Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit supports Cornell faculty, staff, and students. These professional statistical consultants provide researchers with statistics and data science tools and methodologies to make sense of data, draw meaningful conclusions, and contribute to advancing knowledge in their clients' respective fields.

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Researchers develop new method for studying TB, other organisms that go dormant

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New analysis helps discern benign from malignant thyroid growths

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DIY tinkerers tackle defunct tech at Earth Day Repair Fair

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