Data can be found all around us. Businesses like Walmart collect data about purchasing patterns to better understand their customers, while biologists can use data about the human body to study diseases.

Carleton’s new Institute for Data Science, launched in April, is bringing together students and researchers from across all faculties to study how data of all kinds can be used to extract knowledge and information about different subjects – from science and engineering to communications and business.

“It’s a hub to facilitate research,” says Malcolm Butler, dean of Carleton’s Faculty of Science. “It’s a way of bringing people together from across the campus who have interests in data science, getting to know one another to look for opportunities to collaborate, to be a face for Carleton to the external community for collaboration.”