Kevin Guthrie and Xiao-Li Meng will discuss the impact of data and data science on society with a special emphasis on the opportunities and challenges to higher education caused by the growing importance of access to large datasets for research and learning. What are the implications for researchers and students at institutions large and small in the coming decade? What might the implications be for institutional infrastructure? And what are the ways that higher education will need to work with industry and government to expand access to data?