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“Our focus is very balanced across foundations and applications, we feel that they're hand in hand. But the Northstar of what we're building is a new discipline...We understand that Data Science is going to not just take a bunch of disciplines together to form a new discipline, but it's actually going to take things that are not even at the university.”
Hello and welcome back to the seventh season of the Data Science Education Podcast! In this episode, we’re chatting with David Uminsky, Executive Director of the Data Science Institute at the University of Chicago. We begin by exploring Uminsky’s career evolution from a mathematician to a key player in the Data Science education sphere, and then shift to insights into the innovative initiatives happening at the University of Chicago, including the development of intentional doctoral programs and the groundbreaking preceptorship program that bridges the gap between academia and community colleges.
“When we're having these conversations with the community colleges, I was thinking: Wait a minute, there's a real thing here that they want. And what they wanted was to make sure that there were 100,000+ students being served by these incredible seven campuses plus, that were at risk of being left out of the data and AI revolution, the workforce training, and the educational pathways. And they wanted to form a partnership around that with UChicago.”
Bridging Disciplines: Shaping the Future of Data Science Education (feat. David Uminsky)