The science of data science

Harvard will launch a data science program. That's to ride the wave caused by advances in digitization, and the explosion thereof data. Principals point to examples: the explosion of genetics and genomics data in the life sciences, in molecular data, and the humanities as well.The objective is to glean knowledge from this data.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/co-directors-of-newly-launched-harvard-data-science-initiative-discuss-new-era/