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About the Short Course The UC Berkeley Data Science Initiative plans to offer a week-long short course designed to familiarize UCB instructors with the approach, pedagogy, and contents of CS/INFO/STAT C8 - Foundations of Data Science ( http://data8.org) and support them in developing courses that connect with or build upon that foundation. The Foundations course is already serving 1,000 students per year and is augmented...

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An op-ed from UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks in the Daily Californian student newspaper.

The following email message was sent to campus faculty on Nov. 11, 2015 by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele. Dear Colleagues, Berkeley is developing an ecosystem of data science education and research that reflects the intellectual richness of the entire campus. Building upon our outstanding research and graduate programs in this area, we are announcing the formation of a...