There is a heated debate between the people and government around the involvement of data science in politics, here is a list of articles you need to read about the latest news: Continue reading
Category: Resources
Education and Data Science: Link Roundup
- Math has long been overlooked by disciplines focusing on soft-skills, but this article summarizes a report as to why, “taking a cross-disciplinary approach to higher education will help prepare graduates to be not just workers, but productive overall citizens”.
- Students at Georgia Tech created a student-run organization that helps other students explore the world of data science.
- Are you trying to learn Python for data science? This article outlines a plan for how to learn data science in a month if you have had prior exposure to programming (taken your intro to programming course in college or equivalent).
- The Huffington Post published an article about a new desktop application that is helping make data analysis accessible to the masses.
- Are you thinking about getting a Master’s in data science? Forbes just created a list of their top 6 programs they’d recommend.
- How students are using their own data collection devices to prevent the censorship of public city data.
- Hackers gather to deliver public data to communities so their residents can be more connected.
3 Actionable Steps Forward to Protect Public Data
As you may have seen in my post about Open Data Week 2017, Trump announced that his administration would slash funding to the Environmental Protection Agency by 31%. In an article by the Gothamist, the impacts of these changes are outlined relating specifically to New York. Two notable changes from this article that intersect with data science include:
A 50% reduction in the EPA’s Office of Research and Development, the total elimination of the clean power plan.
The total elimination of funding for the Clean Power Plan, international climate change programs, climate change research and partnership programs, and “related efforts,” totaling $100 million.
-Gothamist
Data in the News
In case you missed it…
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Open Data Week overview in New York City [progrss.com]
The first week of March was open data. Open Data Week is an internationally celebrated event where people and organizations get together to discuss the importance of keeping data accessible to the public. Check-in to see what events happened around you to see how you can get involved.
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White House budget cuts for Environmental Protection Agency put data collection and historical records in danger [Washington Post]
The republican spending plan was released this month, which ultimately increases military spending and slashes funding for public services. Activists organized in opposition of federal spending cuts to the EPA by organizing data rescues that make a digitized backup of public records.
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Librarians and ‘hacktivists’ work to protect and secure federal data [Houston Chronicle]
The Houston Chronicle documented the community heroes working to protect our data from deletion.
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Google will buy Kaggle the online community that runs competitions for data scientists [Tech crunch]
The search engine, Google, establishes its presence in, data science, another area relating to the gathering an understanding of information.
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Yale will join other large universities in the competition for providing a post-grad data science program [Yale News]
New York University, Harvard, and Columbia already have Master’s programs in data science. The question remains if they will remain successful under competitive pressure from bootcamps.
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Back to Basics: The Wall Street Journal defines the role of a data scientist [The Wall Street Journal]
Always good to know what the public thinks the role of data scientists is.