- “data science”: collection of best practices
- taught to you by experts in the field
- eager to come teach you
- filling a gap we see in current education
- Data Science: research area
- Columbia University Institute for Data Sciences
- We’re at Columbia; We showed up for a Data Science class; We represent Columbia’s interdisciplinary research community. What do WE think Data Science is?
- $80M in funding thrown at it
- Collaboration. Either way, we’re an interdisciplinary community and have to figure out how to work together
I just set up a Twitter account (@AFortioriData) to follow some big names in the data science field (emphasis on data viz). As my profile picture, I plucked a treemap I had drawn up for my admissions essay to Columbia. It’s an educational map based on William Cleveland’s definition of a data scientist. The areas of study are sized by the percent of curriculum Cleveland prescribed. And the color-scale denotes the level of verbiage he devoted to elucidating the area of study in his paper.
See: http://flowingdata.com/2012/02/03/an-action-plan-for-data-science-a-decade-ago/
awesome! could you send it to me and can I post it here?