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Data exist all around us, from the tweets flying by on social media to the groceries being scanned at the market. This growing wealth of information, known as Big Data, provides exciting opportunities for transforming our economy, reshaping our political and social lives and impacting many, if not most, disciplines across the academy.��

But the excitement surrounding Big Data needs to be tempered by understanding its limitations. As history instructor Vilja Hulden notes “Big Data is good at answering what, but we need the humanities to help us figure out how and why.”��To understand the full story behind the data, a new introductory data science course, Interdisciplinary Data Science for All (AHUM 1825), aims to empower students to view data through a humanist lens and to see the humanity within data.��

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The course is being developed by an interdisciplinary team of arts & sciences faculty, with the support of