# 2025-2026 General Catalog

**Source**: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/science-technology-studies/data-in-society-minor/
**Parent**: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/#programsanddegreestext

[Office & Contact Information](https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/science-technology-studies/)

The Data in Society minor provides students with skills to work with and think critically about data in a variety of academic, administrative, and industrial domains. Courses in the minor teach students to use computational methods (primarily in R) to explore, manipulate, analyze, and visualize numeric and textual data with a critical awareness of the provenance of the data, the choices made in data collection, the questions that can and cannot be answered with any given data set, and the implications of all of these issues for analytic outcomes. Students learn how to communicate about data in written, oral, and visual media with data scientists and with diverse sets of stakeholders. The minor is sponsored by the Department of [Science & Technology Studies](https://sts.ucdavis.edu/).

## Minor Advisor

Staff advisors are located in the Blue Ridge Office Building. For information about how to contact a minor advisor, see [Major Advising](https://yellowcluster.ucdavis.edu/advising/undergraduate/major-advising).

## Faculty Advisor

The faculty advisor, [Professor G](mailto:cnmilburn@ucdavis.edu)[erardo Con Diaz](mailto:condiaz@ucdavis.edu), is available for advising by appointment.

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