Celebrating World Statistics Day

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...

Berkeley defining the next academic frontier: Two NSF awards to UC Berkeley set the stage for a new era of Data Science

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Passing Notebooks in Class: West Big Data Innovation Hub’s UC Berkeley and UW partner with Microsoft on shared data science infrastructure

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...

Fall 2017 Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science

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...

Adding data science to the Berkeley faculty toolkit

In June, more than 30 faculty and instructors across a range of disciplines – from English to Sociology to Neuroscience to Physics – took a week out of their summer to explore how to incorporate tools developed for data science into their own teaching. The faculty members attended the intensive week-long Data Science Pedagogy & Practice workshop hosted in early June by the Data Science...

The course of the future – and the technology behind it

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David Culler named as Interim Dean of new Division of Data Sciences

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Video: Prof. David Culler presents research talk on Berkeley's Data Science Education Program

Professor David Culler made a presentation on April 26 at Microsoft about Berkeley's Data Science Education Program. [[{"fid":"150","view_mode":"width_400","fields":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"data science education program video about uc berkeley","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Data Science Education Program presentation at Microsoft"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"3":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"data science education program video about uc berkeley","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Data Science Education Program presentation at Microsoft"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"data science education program video about uc berkeley","title":"Data Science Education Program presentation at Microsoft","style":"background-color: transparent; float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-400","data-delta":"3"}}]] Watch video at Microsoft's...

Data Science Education Program recognized for excellence in undergraduate education

The Data Science Education Program and its faculty lead Professor Cathryn Carson have received the Berkeley Collegium Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. See below for the full campus announcement from Serena Chen, Faculty Director of the Berkeley Collegium. [[{"fid":"174","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"collegium","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"collegium"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"collegium","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"collegium"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"collegium","title":"collegium","class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]] The message was sent on May 3, 2017. Dear Campus Community, The Berkeley Collegium is pleased to make two announcements. First, we would like...

Data science support offered to UC Berkeley instructors

The Data Science Education Program ( http://data.berkeley.edu/education ) has three near-term opportunities to support instructors in learning and incorporating data science approaches. We are offering an early summer workshop, connector course development resources, and course module development support. Please let us know about your interests and needs! Background Building from the freshman level upwards, the Data Science Education Program offers an interdisciplinary curriculum that provides...