Contrary to the worry that not enough people are majoring in CS, what this shows is that CS is growing out of the relatively small math/physics group and into the larger mass appeal groups.
And maybe what this shows best of all is that Biomed is through the roof.
On the whole, CS has grown slightly more than 3x since 1980 and biomed has grown slightly less than 3x since 1980, but those are the top two sciences.
EDIT:
If I divide 2014 numbers by 1970 numbers, here's the "overall" growth chart for all majors in the data that Dan Wang linked to. Sliced this way, CS is the fastest growing major in the sciences by a long, long way. That is somewhat unfair since CS is the newest, the number is big because the field was tiny in 1970. But, this is a more fair a way to look at this than the article, IMO.
30.67139364 Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting
30.23195558 Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies
24.9501675 Computer and information sciences
10.74267782 Communications technologies
8.78051143 Communication, journalism, and related programs
8.572651945 Health professions and related programs
8.110091743 Legal professions and studies
7.519924099 Multi/interdisciplinary studies
6.286681303 Public administration and social services
5.83438043 Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities
3.348484848 Engineering technologies
3.152990722 Visual and performing arts
3.152613609 Business
3.078456019 Psychology
3.077888251 Biological and biomedical sciences
3.017448623 Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies
2.862768308 Agriculture and natural resources
2.609677419 Theology and religious vocations.
2.201486523 Family and consumer sciences/human sciences
2.172980415 Engineering
1.631956912 Architecture and related services
1.402989257 Physical sciences and science technologies
1.358694318 Philosophy and religious studies..
1.074811362 Social sciences and history
0.92876882 Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics
0.881133825 Mathematics and statistics
0.773109244 Military technologies and applied sciences
0.717323278 English language and literature/letters
0.519678742 Education
0.097729516 Library science
The total number of majors grew by 2.26x between 1970 and 2014, so majors over that are actually growing, and under that are shrinking relative to other majors. Everything above Theology is improving, everything in Family and consumer sciences is shrinking.Oh, wait, this is actually the biggest revelation to me so far: Engineering has actually shrunk a little, and Math & Physics have shrunk a lot. CS is growing, not shrinking.
Here's a plot of the sciences as a percentage of total majors, this is more indicative of the growth of each field relative to other fields than either the absolute numbers or the delta plots in the article: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xuxithrti6nyljm/majorsSciencesPerc...
And compared to more majors: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkronio6arxsrjs/majorsPercent.png?...