© Heikki Topi

Briefing on Upcoming Workshop on Data Science Education

ACM Education Council

Denver, CO

August 24-25, 2015

Heikki Topi, Bentley University

Boots Cassel, Villanova University

BackgroundPresentations at Ed Council meetings in 2013 and

2014

Collaboration between Boots Cassel and Heikki Topi starting at the fall 2014 Ed Council meeting

Conversation between Lise Getoor and Heikki Topi based on Mehran’s introduction in the context of January 2015 Ed Board meeting

Discussions at SIGCSE 2015, most importantly between Boots Cassel and Paul Tymann

NSF funding decision in June 2015

FundamentalsTime and Place: October 2-3, 2015; Crystal City,

Arlington, VA

25-30 participants representing universities actively involved in and key societies associated with data science education (including ACM, AIS, ASA, IEEE-CS, and potentially AMS)

Academic disciplines represented: Computer Science, Information Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics and several scientific and organizational domains that benefit from data science

Funded by NSF Award #1545135

Data Science: Contributing Disciplines

Statistics

Mathematics

Information Systems

Information ScienceEconometrics

Computer Science

Domain of Practice / Scientific

Theme Area

GoalsCreating an opportunity for key stakeholders in

Data Science education to have a conversation on key issues in a neutral environment

Improve various stakeholder groups’ understanding of each other’s actions

Better understanding and articulation of the identity of Data Science, particularly in the context of related disciplines

Explore the need for and the feasibility of developing curriculum guidance for Data Science programs

Confirmed Participants

Anderson, Paul (University of Charleston)

Beck, David (University of Washington)

Carson, Cathryn (UC Berkeley) Cassel, Boots (Villanova University,

workshop co-chair) Culler, David (UC Berkeley, CRA

representative) Getoor, Lise (UC Santa Cruz) Goul, Michael (Arizona State

University) Hancock, Stacey (UC Irvine) Horton, Nick (Amherst College) Jordan, Michael (UC Berkeley) Kraska, Tim (Brown University) LaLonde, Donna (American Statistical

Association) Mentzer, Kevin (Bryant University,

organizing team)

Panoff, Robert (Shodor) Peckham, Joan (University of Rhode

Island) Phillips, Jeff (University of Utah) Posner, Michael (Villanova

University) Prey, Jane (ACM Education Board) Sun, Heshan (Clemson University,

AIS representative) Topi, Heikki (Bentley University,

workshop co-chair) Washington, Anne (George Mason

University) Wilson, Jill (Northwestern

University, INFORMS representative)

Wixom, Barb (CISR, MIT Sloan School of Management)

Representative of IEEE-CS (TBD)

Thank you!If you have comments or questions or are

interested in the results of the conversations, please e-mail Heikki Topi (htopI@bentley.edu) or Boots Cassel (cassel@acm.org)