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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...

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...

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[[{"fid":"152","view_mode":"width_400","fields":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler"},"2":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"David Culler","title":"David Culler","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-400","data-delta":"2"}}]]Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences David Culler has been named as Interim Dean for the newly created Division of Data Sciences. He will begin his new role on July 1, 2017. Please see below for the full announcement, which was sent to the campus community on May 26 by Interim Executive Vice Chancellor...

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...

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...

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...

On April 22nd, UC Berkeley threw open its doors for its campus-wide open house, Cal Day, which each year attracts thousands of current and prospective students, their families, as well as members of the community. And for the first time, the Berkeley Data Science Education Program and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) were part of it. A crowd of more than 100 people...

Instructors at UC Berkeley are invited to a free June workshop where they can learn pedagogical methods and technical tools for data science, and get help integrating them into their own teaching. This workshop will cover how students in the Foundations of Data Science class (Data 8) have been introduced to computational and statistical concepts through hands-on analysis of real-world data, and it will support...

For the first time, Foundations of Data Science (CS/INFO/STAT C8) will be available during the summer session. Foundations of Data Science, or Data 8, is Berkeley's innovative introduction to core concepts of programming and statistics. Get hands-on experience working with data while exploring real-world issues ranging from racial profiling to social networks to California water usage. The course satisfies the L&S Quantitative Reasoning requirement and...