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The “backbone” courses within UC Berkeley’s Data Science Education Program continue to draw unprecedented numbers of students, as the Foundations of Data Science (Data 8) and Principles and Techniques of Data Science (Data 100) reached record enrollments in Spring 2018. These courses draw students from over 70 majors on campus, welcoming anyone with or without programming experience, and giving them the tools to apply data...

[[{"fid":"223","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"binder data 8","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"binder data 8"},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"2":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"binder data 8","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"binder data 8"}},"attributes":{"alt":"binder data 8","title":"binder data 8","class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"2"}}]] Inferential Thinking, the open-source textbook to Foundations of Data Science (Data 8), has now embedded Binder links to allow anyone to explore its rich collection of data science notebooks. Check it out by visiting this link and click on the Interact button. Learning more about Binder at mybinder.org.

UC Berkeley and edX just announced that the extremely popular Berkeley course Data 8: Foundations of Data Science (link is external) will be available online starting on April 2nd, as a Foundations of Data Science Professional Certificate Program (link is external). Students will be able to continue to join throughout the course. This program broadens the university’s public mission by helping anyone, anywhere think critically...

In Fall 2017, the Data Science Discovery Program gave 50 Berkeley undergraduates the chance to deepen their learning in more than a dozen data science projects across a fabulously wide set of domains. Data science skills let students discover new knowledge and create solutions across a broad range of areas. The Data Science Discovery Program allows them to explore their interests and build their own...

The Library, the Division of Data Sciences, BIDS, and the Data Science Nexus student clubs welcomes you the Fall 2017 Data Science Showcase on December 7th at Moffitt Library, Room 405 from 11 to 5PM. Over 150 data science projects from Data 8, Division of Data Sciences student teams, BIDS Discovery Projects, and various Data Science Nexus student clubs like Machine Learning at Berkeley will...

[[{"fid":"193","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]] On Thursday, November 2nd, 2017, the Interim Dean of the Division of Data Sciences will present an overview of the upcoming Data Science major along with other opportunties available to student in Berkeley's fast growing data science ecosystem. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-townhall-registration-39304923083

This is a republication from the original post from: https://www.facebook.com/theNASciences/photos/a.395922850548784.1073741831.381954325278970/1141779482629780 Photo: Professor Bin Yu Over the last few centuries, statistics has evolved from gathering demographic information about people to an awesome field of helping data-driven decisions in industry and data-driven knowledge generation in sciences and social sciences. For example, clinical trials are conducted by medical doctors and biostatisticians to provide evidence for the U.S. Food...

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UC Berkeley Data Science Education Infrastructure Team: Ryan Lovett, Chris Hench, Yuvi Panda, Vinitra Swamy, Gunjan Baid, and Chris Holdgraf at Jupytercon 2017. In just five semesters at UC Berkeley, Foundations of Data Science (Data 8) (link is external) has grown to over 1,000 students (link is external), making it the fastest-growing course in the university’s history. Teaching data science accessibly and at scale depends...

The Berkeley Division of Data Sciences and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) are proud to announce the Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science. This series features faculty doing visionary research that illustrates the character of the ongoing data, computational, inferential revolution. In this inaugural Fall 2017 "local edition" we bring together Berkeley faculty working in these areas here on our own campus. Where...