Making Sense of Data in the Data-Driven Society
Our world is increasingly data-driven, and making sense of data is crucial for everyone. Explore the importance of data analytics and decision-making in today's society. Google offers courses to improve data interpretation skills, and the White House calls for more data-literate workers. Join the movement for Data Science for Social Good and be part of shaping a data-savvy future.
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Z519: Information Analytics Introduction Making Sense of Data
Data-Driven Society We are living in the data-driven society Tell me your story about dealing with data to make decision
Making Sense of Data What kind of data do you have or usually work with? Survey Bibliographic data Network data What kind of story can you try to tell with your data?
Making Sense of Data Our world is filled with data Making sense of data should become the common skill of data society citizen who constantly makes decision based on data Making sense of data: Structure Visualize Analyze
Data Science - Google Google has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Called Making Sense of Data http://techcrunch.com/2014/ 02/26/google-announces- an-online-data- interpretation-class-for-the- general-public/
Data Science - Google Google is helping to solve a major gap in the current education system, while at the same time promoting one of its products. Making Sense of Data is intended for anybody who works with data on a daily basis, such as students, teachers, journalists, and small business owners, and who wants to learn more about how to apply that information to practical problems There are countless teachers and business people who need a quick course on basic numeracy. Google Fusion Tables Project (https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232)
White House White House:call for more data science- literate workers $37M White House Initiative to encourage data science work at American Universities White House to universities: We need more data scientists http://www.fastcompany.com/3021614/fast- feed/white-house-to-universities-we-need- more-data-scientists
Data Science for Social Good http://www.datasociety.net/ http://www.datakind.org/ http://dssg.io/ http://www.sumall.org/ http://www.ushahidi.com/ http://crisis.net/ http://blueengine.org/ http://www.unglobalpulse.org/ http://www.mdrc.org/ http://www.nyc.gov/html/analytics/html/home/home.shtml Work as a team to pick up one project and tell us more about it. Share with us other similar projects.
Debate Data Scientists Is data science for computer or data science for human? http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/08/the-question-to-ask- before-hiring-a-data-scientist/ http://www.kdnuggets.com/ http://www.kdd.org/kdd2014/ http://dssg.uchicago.edu/kddworkshop/
