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NASEM Webinar: Data Science for Undergraduates – Opportunities & Options

As our economy, society, and daily life become increasingly dependent on data, new college graduates entering the workforce need to have the skills to analyze data effectively. At the request of the National Science Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a study to explore what data science skills are essential for undergraduates ...

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Computational Data Science course accepting students for Fall 2018

The course, instructed by Prof. Raj Rao Nadakuditi (EECS), is an in-depth introduction to computational methods for identifying, fitting, extracting and making sense of patterns in large data sets. Read more…

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Q & A with Chaoyi Jiao, first recipient of the MIDAS Graduate Certificate in Data Science

The MIDAS Graduate Certificate in Data Science was established in 2015 to offer students a way to enhance their skills and prepare for a workforce that values multidisciplinary knowledge, broad analytical skills, and agile technological abilities. Nearly 50 students have enrolled in the program, which requires 9 credits of courses and 3 credits of experiential ...

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Raising the next generation of data scientists at the MIDAS Summer Camp

This summer, 10 high school students from around the country gathered in Ann Arbor for the first annual Michigan Institute for Data Science Summer Camp on the campus of the University of Michigan. The weeklong camp, titled “From Simple Building Blocks to Complex Shapes: A Visual Tour of Fourier Series,” drew students from as far away ...