Curriculum guidelines for undergraduate programs in data science

RD De Veaux, M Agarwal, M Averett… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The Park City Math Institute 2016 Summer Undergraduate Faculty Program met for the
purpose of composing guidelines for undergraduate programs in data science. The group …

[PDF][PDF] 50 years of Data Science

D Donoho - URL http://courses. csail. mit. edu/18, 2015 - smallake.kr
More than 50 years ago, John Tukey called for a reformation of academic statistics. In 'The
Future of Data Analysis', he pointed to the existence of an as-yet unrecognized science …

A guide to teaching data science

SC Hicks, RA Irizarry - The American Statistician, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Demand for data science education is surging and traditional courses offered by statistics
departments are not meeting the needs of those seeking training. This has led to a number …

A fresh look at introductory data science

M Çetinkaya-Rundel, V Ellison - Journal of Statistics and Data …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The proliferation of vast quantities of available datasets that are large and complex in nature
has challenged universities to keep up with the demand for graduates trained in both the …

Data science in 2020: Computing, curricula, and challenges for the next 10 years

A Schwab-McCoy, CM Baker… - Journal of Statistics and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In the past 10 years, new data science courses and programs have proliferated at the
collegiate level. As faculty and administrators enter the race to provide data science training …

Data science in statistics curricula: Preparing students to “think with data”

J Hardin, R Hoerl, NJ Horton, D Nolan… - The American …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
A growing number of students are completing undergraduate degrees in statistics and
entering the workforce as data analysts. In these positions, they are expected to understand …

50 years of data science

D Donoho - Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
More than 50 years ago, John Tukey called for a reformation of academic statistics. In “The
Future of Data Analysis,” he pointed to the existence of an as-yet unrecognized science …

A data science course for undergraduates: Thinking with data

B Baumer - The American Statistician, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Data science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines elements of mathematics,
statistics, computer science, and knowledge in a particular application domain for the …

Mere renovation is too little too late: We need to rethink our undergraduate curriculum from the ground up

G Cobb - The American Statistician, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The last half-dozen years have seen The American Statistician publish well-argued and
provocative calls to change our thinking about statistics and how we teach it, among them …

Computing in the statistics curricula

D Nolan, D Temple Lang - The American Statistician, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The nature of statistics is changing significantly with many opportunities to broaden the
discipline and its impact on science and policy. To realize this potential, our curricula and …