Other Disciplines to Dive in Deeper: Computer Science, Management/Decision Science, Operations Research, Engineering (and More)

Computer science is such a large field that has its fingerprints all over analytics. This chapter touches on some form of it in every chapter and deeply in some; for example, see the extensive discussion of data engineering. Data engineers and many analytics professionals come from computer science programs or experiential backgrounds. The chapter points out one important area of contribution that you should consider exploring more deeply. Many academic computer science departments have dedicated divisions in cognitive systems or Artificial Intelligence. Decision science is a broad and varied field. From our research, there is a bit of a divide with some camps calling it more behavioral, social and public policy oriented, and others calling it more business focused. Decision science is strongly aligned with analytics. Operations research is the application of scientific and mathematical methods to the study and analysis of problems involving complex systems.