Identifying the Content, Lesson Structure, and Data Use Within Pre-collegiate Data Science Curricula

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor R. Lee ◽  
Victoria Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Lesson Structure ◽  
Science Curricula

scholarly journals What is Data Science? An Operational Definition based on Text Mining of Data Science Curricula

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Zhang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Data Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Science Curricula

Data science has maintained its popularity for about 20 years. This study adopts a bottom-up approach to understand what data science is by analyzing the descriptions of courses offered by the data science programs in the United States. Through topic modeling, 14 topics are identified from the current curricula of 56 data science programs. These topics reiterate that data science is at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and substantive fields.

scholarly journals The democratization of data science education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Kross ◽  
Roger D Peng ◽  
Brian S Caffo ◽  
Ira Gooding ◽  
Jeffrey T Leek
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Online Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Science Curricula ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

Over the last three decades data has become ubiquitous and cheap. This transition has accelerated over the last five years and training in statistics, machine learning, and data analysis have struggled to keep up. In April 2014 we launched a program of nine courses, the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization, which has now had more than 4 million enrollments over the past three years. Here the program is described and compared to both standard and more recently developed data science curricula. We show that novel pedagogical and administrative decisions introduced in our program are now standard in online data science programs. The impact of the Data Science Specialization on data science education in the US is also discussed. Finally we conclude with some thoughts about the future of data science education in a data democratized world.

scholarly journals The democratization of data science education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Kross ◽  
Roger D Peng ◽  
Brian S Caffo ◽  
Ira Gooding ◽  
Jeffrey T Leek
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Online Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Science Curricula ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

Over the last three decades data has become ubiquitous and cheap. This transition has accelerated over the last five years and training in statistics, machine learning, and data analysis have struggled to keep up. In April 2014 we launched a program of nine courses, the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization, which has now had more than 4 million enrollments over the past three years. Here the program is described and compared to both standard and more recently developed data science curricula. We show that novel pedagogical and administrative decisions introduced in our program are now standard in online data science programs. The impact of the Data Science Specialization on data science education in the US is also discussed. Finally we conclude with some thoughts about the future of data science education in a data democratized world.

Valuation challenges in statistics and data science curricula

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-78
Author(s):  
Helen MacGillivray
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Science Curricula

scholarly journals It’s all in the timing: calibrating temporal penalties for biomedical data sharing

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiyi Xia ◽  
Zhiyu Wan ◽  
Zhijun Yin ◽  
James Gaupp ◽  
Yongtai Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
Data Usage ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Objective Biomedical science is driven by datasets that are being accumulated at an unprecedented rate, with ever-growing volume and richness. There are various initiatives to make these datasets more widely available to recipients who sign Data Use Certificate agreements, whereby penalties are levied for violations. A particularly popular penalty is the temporary revocation, often for several months, of the recipient’s data usage rights. This policy is based on the assumption that the value of biomedical research data depreciates significantly over time; however, no studies have been performed to substantiate this belief. This study investigates whether this assumption holds true and the data science policy implications. Methods This study tests the hypothesis that the value of data for scientific investigators, in terms of the impact of the publications based on the data, decreases over time. The hypothesis is tested formally through a mixed linear effects model using approximately 1200 publications between 2007 and 2013 that used datasets from the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes, a data-sharing initiative of the National Institutes of Health. Results The analysis shows that the impact factors for publications based on Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes datasets depreciate in a statistically significant manner. However, we further discover that the depreciation rate is slow, only ∼10% per year, on average. Conclusion The enduring value of data for subsequent studies implies that revoking usage for short periods of time may not sufficiently deter those who would violate Data Use Certificate agreements and that alternative penalty mechanisms may need to be invoked.

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