Webinar: Tuesday, July 10 , 2018 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
Presented by : Nicholas J. Horton (Amherst College)
Title: Data Science for Undergraduates: Opportunities and Options
Please sign up to register, link to register :
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/teaching/2018-07 [
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/teaching/2017-10 ]
Abstract: As our economy, society, and daily life become increasingly dependent on data,
work across nearly all fields is becoming more data driven, affecting both the jobs that
are available and the skills that are required. At the request of the National Science
Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine were asked to
set forth a vision for the emerging discipline of data science at the undergraduate level.
The study committeem considered the core principles and skills undergraduates should learn
and discussed the pedagogical issues that must be addressed to build effective data
science education programs. The report underscores the importance of preparing
undergraduates for a data-enabled world and recommends that academic institutions and
other stakeholders take steps to meet the evolving data science needs of students. In this
webinar, implications, opportunities, and challenges for statistics educators will be
discussed along with the study findings. [
http://fivethirtyeight.com/ ]
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