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Data science is not a science. It is a research paradigm with an unfathomed scope, scale, complexity, and power for knowledge discovery that is not otherwise possible and can be beyond human reasoning. It is changing our world practically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Michael L. Brodie

Data science is the business of learning from data, which is traditionally the business of statistics. Data science, however, is often understood as a broader, task-driven and computationally-oriented version of statistics. Both the term…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2018-10-11 Iain Carmichael , J. S. Marron

Data science requires time-consuming iterative manual activities. In particular, activities such as data selection, preprocessing, transformation, and mining, highly depend on iterative trial-and-error processes that could be sped-up…

As the demand for jobs in data science increases, so does the demand for universities to develop and facilitate modernized data science curricula to train students for these positions. Yet, the development of these courses remains…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-07 Elijah Meyer , Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

While data science has emerged as a contentious new scientific field, enormous debates and discussions have been made on it why we need data science and what makes it as a science. In reviewing hundreds of pieces of literature which include…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Longbing Cao

Like medicine, psychology, or education, data science is fundamentally an applied discipline, with most students who receive advanced degrees in the field going on to work on practical problems. Unlike these disciplines, however, data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Kit T Rodolfa , Adolfo De Unanue , Matt Gee , Rayid Ghani

Using the National Academies report, {\em Data Science for Undergraduates: Opportunities and Options}, we connect data science curricula to the more familiar pedagogy used by many mathematical scientists. We use their list of ``data acumen"…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-06-13 Johanna Hardin

The use of statistical software in academia and enterprises has been evolving over the last years. More often than not, students, professors, workers, and users, in general, have all had, at some point, exposure to statistical software.…

Applications · Statistics 2019-08-21 Rui Portocarrero Sarmento , Vera Costa

Rapidly evolving technology, data and analytic landscapes are permeating many fields and professions. In public health, the need for data science skills including data literacy is particularly prominent given both the potential of novel…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Nicholas Mirin , Heather Mattie , Latifa Jackson , Zainab Samad , Rumi Chunara

We present a programmatic approach to incorporating ethics into an undergraduate major in statistical and data sciences. We discuss departmental-level initiatives designed to meet the National Academy of Sciences recommendation for…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2022-02-01 Benjamin S. Baumer , Randi L. Garcia , Albert Y. Kim , Katherine M. Kinnaird , Miles Q. Ott

The definition of Data Science is a hotly debated topic. For many, the definition is a simple shortcut to Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning. However, there is far more depth and nuance to the field of Data Science than a simple…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-03-19 Brian Wright , Peter Alonzi , Ali Rivera

Student dropout is a significant concern for educational institutions due to its social and economic impact, driving the need for risk prediction systems to identify at-risk students before enrollment. We explore the accuracy of such…

Demand for data science education is surging and traditional courses offered by statistics departments are not meeting the needs of those seeking training. This has led to a number of opinion pieces advocating for an update to the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2017-05-16 Stephanie C. Hicks , Rafael A. Irizarry

Data-driven decision making is serving and transforming education. We approached the problem of predicting students' performance by using multiple data sources which came from online courses, including one we created. Experimental results…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Mélina Verger , Hugo Jair Escalante

Modern data and applications pose very different challenges from those of the 1950s or even the 1980s. Students contemplating a career in statistics or data science need to have the tools to tackle problems involving massive, heavy-tailed…

Applications · Statistics 2015-08-18 Nicholas Chamandy , Omkar Muralidharan , Stefan Wager

Data Mining is the process of extracting useful patterns from the huge amount of database and many data mining techniques are used for mining these patterns. Recently, one of the remarkable facts in higher educational institute is the rapid…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Priyanka Saini

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our lives in many ways. One application domain is data science. New techniques in automating the creation of AI, known as AutoAI or AutoML, aim to automate the work practices…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Dakuo Wang , Justin D. Weisz , Michael Muller , Parikshit Ram , Werner Geyer , Casey Dugan , Yla Tausczik , Horst Samulowitz , Alexander Gray

Data Science is a multidisciplinary field that plays a crucial role in extracting valuable insights and knowledge from large and intricate datasets. Within the realm of Data Science, two fundamental components are Information Theory (IT)…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-12-31 Shahid Nawaz , Muhammad Saleem , F. V. Kusmartsev , Dalaver H. Anjum

Data science and machine learning are the key technologies when it comes to the processes and products with automatic learning and optimization to be used in the automotive industry of the future. This article defines the terms "data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Martin Hofmann , Florian Neukart , Thomas Bäck

According to a recent report from the European Commission, the world generates every minute 1.7 million of billions of data bytes, the equivalent of 360,000 DVDs, and companies that build their decision-making processes by exploiting these…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2015-12-23 Philippe Besse , Beatrice Laurent