Governing

The Best Jobs Require Data Science Skills. Schools Need to Do Better at Providing Them.

When you hear the phrase “data science,” you might envision caffeine-stoked coding wizards building the next Instagram or ground-breaking AI app. In reality, an ever-increasing number of employers are ...
Education Week

Students Need Better/More Data-Science Skills. Here Are 5 Ways Schools Can Help

Corrected: A previous version of this article should have said that more states are adding data-science education into their K-12 curriculum, but not data-science requirements. It’s almost impossible ...
The Business Journals

Here are the skills increasingly sought by hiring managers

Employers are increasingly valuing a specific set of abilities in their workers and new hires. Hiring managers are expected to place a higher premium on job candidates with data-science skills in the ...
Daily Bruin

DataRes offers opportunity to build data science skills, find supportive community

DataRes, UCLA’s largest student data science organization, facilitates professional project experience while nurturing a caring community. Upon joining DataRes, members are organized into five ...
JSTOR Daily

Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training

There is a clear demand for quantitative literacy in the life sciences, necessitating competent instructors in higher education. However, not all instructors are versed in data science skills or ...