As some of you already know Carly Mahedy will be out on maternity leave through August. While Carly is out, we are pleased to announce that Brenda Bradrick will step in to assist students, staff, and faculty.

Brenda is a recent graduate from the Health Informatics Master Program receiving her M.S. in December of 2020. She is currently working on a Master’s Certificate in Learning, Design and Technology at the Cato College of Education. She has worked as a graduate assistant for the School of Data Science. Her industry experience includes Marketing Research Director of several business-to-business publications, Marketing and Research Analyst at National Geographic Traveler Magazine, Research Manager for the US Travel Industry Association and as a Senior Practice Administrator for the North American Operations Practice at McKinsey & Company.

If you have not already registered for the fall 2021 semester, please do so immediately, as classes are filling up.

For registration assistance, set up an advising session with Brenda Bradrick or Josh Hertel.

Congratulations to all of our Spring 2021 graduates!

After graduation and beyond, we'd love for you all to stay engaged with your specific program and the School of Data Science. You are invited to update your contact information below, and identify ways that you would prefer to engage with the School going forward: mentoring, sponsoring an internship, participating in networking sessions, etc.

This course covers general computational techniques for analyzing large amounts of text data as well as basic techniques for information retrieval. By introducing text mining (TM) and information retrieval (IR) in a unified framework, this course emphasizes the importance of integration of IR and TM needed to build the two major types of text information systems, i.e., search engines (such as Google, MS Bing, etc) and text analytics systems, for text information access and text analysis. This course intends to provide a systematic introduction to many of these approaches, such as word association mining, text classification, text summarization, probabilistic topic modeling, and opinion mining. Students are expected to have basic knowledge about computer science, particularly some programming languages, and be comfortable with some basic concepts in probability and statistics such as conditional probability and parameter estimation.

The SDS Student Organization held their board member election the week of May 17.

Four students were elected to the board including three new members: Naomi Nikita Thammadi, Vice President; Rachael Dewey, Treasurer and Himadri Verma, Health Informatics Representative, and one continuing board member Yash Patel who served last term as Marketing Officer was elected President. Congratulations to all!

Also, we want to thank outgoing Board Members Rishitha Muddana, President; Luke Jenkins, Vice President; Eric Dishmon, Treasurer; Ridhi Shah, Graduate Students Senator; Elijah Ellison, Secretary; Yash Patel, Marketing Officer; Yashank Choksi, Student Liaison; and Aparna Rajwani, HIA Representative for their service and leadership during the past term.

The Student Organization Board Members will spend the summer developing a student engagement plan that leads us all back into the real world of in person networking and professional events and much more.

UNC Charlotte's School of Data Science faculty member and full-time lecturer, John Tobias, was recently featured in an article by the Boston Globe on the Sports Analytics industry. He is offering two new classes this fall: DTSC 1110 Sports Analytics and DTSC 2110 Sports Business Analytics.

Check out the official sports analytics webpage below.

The Charlotte 49ers Athletics Department has partnered with UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science (SDS) and the Department of Kinesiology to provide sports analytics for each of the 49ers’ 18 athletic programs. The new internship program, which is set to launch in fall 2021, offers students the opportunity to gain invaluable, “on-the-field” industry experience.

Learn more about the internship program below.

All new students are encouraged to register and attend the UNC Charlotte Graduate School Virtual Orientation.

Attend to hear a welcome message from the Graduate School Dean and Associate Dean, learn more about services offered by the Center for Graduate Life, and join a Q&A with a panel of continuing graduate students. Please click below to be directed to the information and registration page.

Join UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science for the annual orientation session for the DSBA and HIA graduate programs.

Stay tuned for Zoom link information.

Premier is looking for smart, agile individuals like you to help us transform the healthcare industry. Here you will find critical thinkers who have the freedom to make an impact. Colleagues who share your thirst to learn more and do things better. Teammates committed to improving the health of a nation. See why incredible challenges require incredible people.

They are looking to hire immediately. Interested candidates should submit their resumes by no later than Tuesday, June 1st. 

Requirements

Nice to Have

SAS Institute prides itself on helping its customers discover insights from their data, make more intelligent decisions, and drive relevant change. SAS is currently looking for students who are interested in technical and non-technical healthcare and life science positions. 

Please contact and send a copy of your resume to Luke Fore once your application has been submitted.

Location: Plano, Texas (Temporarily Remote)

Location: Plano, Texas (Temporarily Remote)

Location: Plano, Texas (Temporarily Remote)

Location: Plano, Texas (Temporarily Remote)