This winter term five faculty colleagues from Math, Art History, Biology, Economics, and Japanese designed and piloted a new course blending a traditional introduction to data science with immersive project-based applications across four disciplines. Students with no prior data science experience spent their mornings learning how to use the statistical software package R to wrangle and extract meaning from data, and their afternoons critically applying these skills to research projects on topics ranging from seventeenth-century Dutch art to tick-borne disease to Japanese pop culture to abortion policy.
ITS is excited to announce, thanks to generous contributions from our infrastructure technology partners, in the coming months we will be updating and expanding the high-speed networking and storage capabilities of the Ada high-performance computing (HPC) platform.
The midd.data steering committee is happy to announce the latest round of micro grants for summer projects and new faculty leave year fellowship awards.
This year five faculty colleagues from Math, Art History, Biology, Economics, and Japanese designed and piloted a new winter-term course blending a traditional introduction to data science with immersive project-based applications across four disciplines.
