Goal Eight: Data
Knowledge and Impact
Create the leading academic hub for data science and artificial intelligence to drive research and teaching in every corner of the university and magnify our impact in every corner of the world.
We seek to become the leading university center for data science and application, one that makes emphatic contributions to scholarship and society in vital fields. To achieve this goal, we will:
- Build a universitywide hub for data science and translation that will provide a platform for sophisticated data-driven discovery to inform our research, education, and clinical and service activities.
- Grow our leadership in data science and artificial intelligence including through significant investments in faculty in the Whiting School of Engineering.
- Work to define how the sharing of data in an ethical manner can responsibly shape the future of knowledge and science.
Why this goal is important
We are at an inflection point in the historic arc of human knowledge. The 21st century is already defined by a supernova of available data in nearly every field of human endeavor. How we gather, analyze, and interpret this vast and ever-expanding ocean of information will indelibly shape our collective future and the nature of critical inquiry across every dimension of our research portfolio. Johns Hopkins is approaching this moment from a foundation of extraordinary assets and talents. One faculty leader has framed the opportunity as follows: “The most impactful research universities of the future will be those with scholars who possess meaningful depth in data and another domain, and are equipped with the ability to bridge between these disciplines.”