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Michelle Schwalbe, Linda Casola

Data Science Education Roundtable Held


The first quarterly Roundtable on Data Science Education, hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, took place on December 14, 2016, in Washington, D.C. 50 people participated in person, and over 100 people joined via webcast. Members of the statistics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science communities discussed their fields’ contributions to the foundations of data science at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and representatives from the National Institutes of Health, Amazon, and the U.S. Census Bureau discussed the ever-expanding role of data science in their organizations. Videos of the speakers’ presentations are available at www.nas.edu/data-science-education-roundtable-1. ASA members who participated include: Brian Caffo, Michelle Dunn, Constantine Gatsonis, Nicholas Horton, Deb Nolan, Rebecca Nugent, Victoria Stodden, and Jessica Utts. The next meeting of the Roundtable is scheduled for March 20, 2017, in Irvine, C.A. The National Academies also hosted a related event, Envisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective, on December 12-13, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Participants discussed the role data science plays in society, how data science should evolve, the skillsets data science students need to be successful in the workforce, and how diversity could be improved in data science programs. Presentations from this meeting can be found at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/CSTB/CSTB_177038, and participants will meet again for a workshop in May 2017 to continue this important discussion.

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