[AISWorld] your ideas for a 'data scientist' course

[Lee Giles]

I believe this is what Joseph is referring to:

> http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/ar/1
Courses in this area are sometimes listed under the phrase "big data".
Sloan already
has an executive education course:

> http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/big_data_making_complex_things_simpler/49

Several I schools have already such courses or will offer them soon.
Here's one
at Berkeley

> http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/courses/290-abdt

Hope this helps.

Best

Lee Giles



On 10/24/12 3:47 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> I have not heard of that name before but certainly, the topics are well covered already. The course description you provide is one that we already deliver under the Bachelor of Computing and Information Sciences (BCIS). This is the principal undergraduate degree for our school. All the topics you listed are covered in the various papers that are offered by our school. In particular, the  Bachelor in Mathematical Sciences (BMathSc) and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in applied mathematics are where students can specialise more closely, mathematically and statistically.
>
> I am not certain this would be an effective programme of study for MIS students. As it is, the range of subjects is sufficient to warrant majors in these degrees. I would doubt that an undergraduate programme of study could incorporate such a diverse range of topics as an adjunct for business students doing an MIS degree.
>
> Please refer to our academic calendar for regulations and paper listings: Academic Calendar 2012<http://www.aut.ac.nz/_media/intranet/pdfs/services--and--operations/academic-quality-office/academic-calendar-2012/Academic-Calendar-2012-Final.pdf>
> BCIS p351
> BMathSc p414
> BSc p422
>
> Kind regards
> Alan Litchfield
> --
> Dr Alan T Litchfield
> Programme Leader, Masters in Services Oriented Computing
> School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
> Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
> Auckland University of Technology
> http://www.aut.ac.nz/cms/
> Ph +649 921 9999 x5217
>
>
> On 24/10/12 7:39 AM, "Joseph Clark" <joeclark77 at hotmail.com<mailto:joeclark77 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> I'm currently trying to develop a course to equip our MIS undergraduate students for careers as "data scientists" (this is the fashionable new title that business intelligence analysts have lately been adopting) and I'd like to ask for your input.  I envision a course that will teach the students to be problem-solvers with data, to employ data visualization and statistics purposefully and to identify business value.  The course will  give the students some technical skills (e.g. R programming) without being strictly a technology course, and I'd like them to leave with a completed analytical project they can show off and add to their professional portfolio.  It might include special topics like GIS or big data analytics.
>
> This would complement a standard course on business intelligence which covers the infrastructure supporting analysis (ETL, data warehousing, dashboards, etc) and some more technical courses (statistics, data mining, computer science), and should not replace or overlap too much with these others.
>
> Do any of you have experience teaching this type of class, especially at the undergraduate level?  I would appreciate recommendations for syllabi, textbooks, assignments, or course-long projects.
>
>
> // joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate
> \\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T
>
>
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