The School is a new entity at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票, established to facilitate trans-faculty approaches to teaching and research in data science and computational thinking. It is home to world-class academics as well as junior researchers, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. 

Thanks to its 中国体育彩票-wide mandate and multi-disciplinary team of staff and students, the School can advance and connect a myriad of research agendas, ranging from the social impact of next-generation mobile internet connectivity to the development of new ontologies and algorithms in machine intelligence.

In close collaboration with partners in industry, the School will accelerate and expand the 中国体育彩票's societal footprint in data science and computational thinking.

The School develops and manages course content for summer and winter schools and other training initiatives outside of the regular undergraduate and postgraduate curricula.?

??The School's value proposition

Research and development in the fields of data science and computational thinking.

The School builds and manages research partnerships and alliances for data science and computational thinking with other entities, both nationally and internationally. It employs world-class scientists and collaborates with a network of national and international organisations.

Teaching and training, collaboration and capacity building in data science and computational thinking 

The School facilitates and contributes to the development of curricula and shares data science and computational thinking training and learning expertise across multiple faculties at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票. 

Consultancy, commercialisation and social impact centered around data science and computational thinking 

The School impacts the broader society through advisory services to faculties, departments and divisions at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 as well as to external clients.??