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Data analytics is a new field that takes all the data

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that were generating all the time and uses it to

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solves problems and answer questions.  

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Because it's an emerging field, there's lots of

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job opportunities there, good job opportunities.

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The jobs have a median salary of well over $70,000 a year.

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And the jobs are really flexible jobs. 

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You can often work from home and they're  

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often ranked high - top 5 actually job satisfaction. 

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And so it's important that we offer this degree here at Western Oregon University

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so our students can get those really great jobs.

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The data analytics program is interdisciplinary.

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You're going to take a variety of classes, including math classes like

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Introduction to Statistics. computer science classes like Learning Python.

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Information system classes that teach you about Data Bases.

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And data analytics specific classes that teach you about things like Machine Learning. 

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The other reason I'm excited about data analytics is because

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it's used in also every field nowadays.

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So whether your passion is data or criminal justice or health care, politics...

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all these areas use big data. So you can combine your passion area

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with data analytics to do what interests you best. 

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