Almost everything we do in the modern
world from shopping to taking the train
to playing video games with our friends,
leaves a data footprint
data scientists are using this data
 to make decisions in government,
in health care, education and business.
In our new BSc in Mathematics 
Statistics and Data Science we will give
you the theoretical underpinnings as
well as the practical experience to work
in this new and exciting area.
Everything these days is generating data
understanding that data, using it to our
advantage and helping make predictions
about the future is all the value.
Students might want to do this course if
they want to learn a broader set of
skills than just a classical master's degree
and we have lots of industrial
partners who are looking for those skills.
I'm in charge of space weather
research at the MET office
data science is becoming very important 
not just for space weather
but also for weather and climate.
We're taking in hundreds of
thousands of observations per day but
how can we exploit that data more?
The amount of data used for autonomous driving vehicles these days is
exponentially increasing, the automotive
world is crying out for data scientists.
All of our new recruits are expected to
have some form of understanding in
programming, scripting and rapid
visualisation of data.
The course is structured in three main components, 
on the mathematical side
you'll learn about core fundamental 
concepts in mathematics,
mathematical models and
computation. On the statistics side
you'll learn about statistical models,
and how do you deal with randomness in
day to day real-world setting. On the
data science side the focus is much
more on algorithmic complexity: 
computing and programming.
In your penultimate year you'll have
an opportunity to go on a placement and
students find that this is really
energising.
I believe that going to
placement is a great opportunity to
improve your CV and get that experience
that companies really require nowadays
to get a good job.
This course would
prepare you well for going straight into
a job as a data scientist in industry or
in government, I think this course is
also a good preparation for going on to
further study be it an MSc in statistics
or AI or potentially even a PhD.
Having an understanding of maths and statistics is pretty integral to data science.
Every company collects information in one form
or another and having those skills is
going to let you go into a company and
let them utilise that data.
I always joke with my team members that 
someone's going get very rich one day
understanding how to mine all of the
data that we've accumulated and to use it
to predict the future.
