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Vanderbilt has launched a Data Science Institute and will welcome its first class of students working toward a master’s degree in data science in the fall, said Doug Schmidt, co-director for the program. The school has hired former HCA Healthcare Inc. Director of Data Science Jesse Spencer-Smith as the program’s chief data scientist.

Dillon Vess and Brittani Roberts (MBA’19s) on how they landed positions in an industry without a recruiting pipeline.