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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...

Instructors interested in learning how to incorporate data science into their courses are invited to come to the Teaching and Research Resource Fair at the Academic Innovation Studio on Tuesday, April 18. The event is open to all faculty, researchers, and graduate students, and is designed to connect instructors with campus resources to improve or refresh their teaching and research. The Data Science Education Program...

The ability to integrate, analyze, and archive mammoth amounts of data has become a mainstay for cutting-edge research and teaching across many academic disciplines. As data science takes root, the D-Lab has emerged as a nexus for the support that the campus’ faculty and researchers need to take advantage of the latest methodologies. Operating out of brightly-painted offices in Barrows Hall, the D-Lab supports data-intensive...

Seated in small groups with their laptops, students from lecturer Victoria Robinson’s introductory Ethnic Studies course are talking excitedly while poring over data from private immigration detention centers across California. Their work together is part of a data-centric project they will present at the end of the term. Robinson has taught the course for several years, leading students to examine the connections between immigration enforcement...

The Data Science Education Program was featured in the Wall Street Journal in an article about data science on March 13, 2017.