Data Science Institute

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| name = Data Science Institute

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| parent = Imperial College London

| founder = Guo Yike{{cite web |last=Hawkins |first=Amy |title=China influencing leading British universities, documentary claims |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/nov/28/china-influencing-leading-british-universities-documentary-claims |work=The Guardian |date=28 November 2023}}

| established = 1 April 2014

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| website = {{URL|https://www.imperial.ac.uk/data-science/}}

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The Data Science Institute is a research institute at the Imperial College London founded in April 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/146066/global-data-science-launches-imperial-college/|title = Global data science hub launches at Imperial College London | Imperial News | Imperial College London| date=31 March 2014 }} The institute is one of five Global Institutes at Imperial College London, alongside the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Energy Futures Lab, Institute for Security Science and Technology, and the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/global-institutes/|title=Global institutes}}

The Data Science Institute has partnerships with international industry and academia, with formal investments from Chinese multinational telecoms company Huawei,{{Cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/40633050-e30a-11e2-9bb2-00144feabdc0.html|title = Huawei and Imperial College announce data technology venture|newspaper = Financial Times|date = 2 July 2013}} multinational consultancy KPMG,{{Cite web|url=http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240224541/Imperial-College-and-KPMG-join-forces-with-20m-business-analytics-centre|title = Imperial College and KPMG join forces with £20m business analytics centre}} and Zhejiang University, China.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/153966/imperial-zhejiang-university-launch-data-science/|title = Imperial and Zhejiang University launch data science collaboration | Imperial News | Imperial College London| date=18 July 2014 }}

The goal of the institute is to enhance multidisciplinary data science research across the whole of Imperial College by coordinating and promoting data-driven research and education activities.{{cite conference |author1=Y. Guo|author2=D. Johnson|title=Creating a Chemistry of Sciences with Big Data: Building the Data Science Institute at Imperial College London |book-title=BigDataScience '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Big Data Science and Computing |url=https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/19576|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |access-date=26 March 2016 |doi=10.1145/2640087.2644159|date=4 August 2014|hdl=10044/1/19576 |isbn=9781450328913|s2cid=40769780|url-access=subscription}} These activities cover all areas across the College including engineering, medicine, natural sciences, and business.

The institute houses a custom built large-scale immersive data visualization facility called the KPMG Data Observatory, which has a resolution of 132 megapixels that is thought to be the largest such system in Europe.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/europes-largest-data-observatory-turns-big-data-into-big-images/|title=Europe's Largest Data Observatory Turns Big Data into Big Images|date=3 November 2015 }}