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 …

Teaching the next generation of statistics students to “think with data”: Special issue on statistics and the undergraduate curriculum

NJ Horton, JS Hardin - The American Statistician, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The American Statistical Association endorses the value of undergraduate programs in
statistics as a reflection of the increasing importance of the discipline. We expect statistics …

Statistical engineering: an idea whose time has come?

RW Hoerl, RD Snee - The American Statistician, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Several authors, including the American Statistical Association (ASA) guidelines for
undergraduate statistics education, have noted the challenges facing statisticians when …

Exploring online authentic learning environment (OnALE) for inferential statistics: its efficacy and benefits to statistics learners

UH Lau, Z Tasir - Educational technology research and development, 2024 - Springer
An online authentic learning environment (OnALE) is proposed in this study to facilitate
students' learning of inferential statistics in a real-life context. The efficacy of the OnALE, in …

Constructing a Course on Classification Methods for Undergraduate Non-STEM Students: Striving to Reach Knowledge Discovery

A Khalemsky, R Gelbard, Y Stukalin - Journal of Statistics and Data …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Classification, a fundamental data analytics task, has widespread applications across
various academic disciplines, such as marketing, finance, sociology, psychology, education …

A survey of statistical capstone projects

SE Martonosi, TD Williams - Journal of Statistics Education, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we highlight the advantages of incorporating a statistical capstone experience
in the undergraduate curriculum, where students perform an in-depth analysis of real-world …

The data mine: Enabling data science across the curriculum

E Gundlach, MD Ward - Journal of Statistics and Data Science …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we describe a large-scale living learning community (LLC) for undergraduate
students of any major or background. Our students are united by a desire to learn data …

A project-based approach to statistics and data science

D White - Primus, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In an increasingly data-driven world, facility with statistics is more important than ever for our
students. At institutions without a statistician, it often falls to the mathematics faculty to teach …

Fostering the Development of Earth Data Science Skills in a Diverse Community of Online Learners: A Case Study of the Earth Data Science Corps

NA Quarderer, L Wasser, AU Gold… - Journal of Statistics …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Today's data-driven world requires earth and environmental scientists to have skills at the
intersection of domain and data science. These skills are imperative to harness information …

Diagnosing Data Analytic Problems in the Classroom

RD Peng, A Chen, E Bridgeford, JT Leek… - Journal of Statistics …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Teaching data analysis by providing students with real-world problems and datasets allows
students to integrate a variety of skills in a situation that mirrors how data analysis actually …