The Data Science Education Podcast

Jan 24 2025 62 ep. 24 mins 32
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Produced by UC Berkeley's Data Science Undergraduate Studies. In this space, you will hear from a variety of distinguished Data Science educators and professionals. The individuals we’ll speak with are diverse in experience and perspective, but share the common goal of shaping the future of Data Science Education! Transcripts available at https://datascienceeducation.substack.com/ To learn more about UC Berkeley's Data Science Undergraduate Studies, visit our website at https://cdss.berkeley.edu/dsus.

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Navigating the Data Revolution: Insights from ADSA Founder Micaela Parker

Jan 24 2025 20 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“If you're worried that the AI hype is subsuming data science, remember: you can't have AI without data—data science isn’t going anywhere.”Welcome to Season 9 of the show! To start off the new year, listen in on our conversation with Micaela Parker, founder and executive director of the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA). Micael

Student-Led Innovation: Alumni Stories of Building Berkeley’s Data Science Program (feat. Alan Liang, Vinitra Swamy, Gunjan Baid)

Dec 13 2024 35 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“I would recommend double majoring with a different degree, because I think while data science by itself is a very, very useful and versatile degree, I think being able to apply it to a particular domain overall makes you a better statistician, or economist, or historian, right?”—Alan LiangIn the final episode of the season, we explo

Building STAT 107: Revolutionizing Data Science at Illinois (feat. Karle Flanagan & Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider)

Nov 29 2024 29 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“We introduce a new data set to them every week, and we try and use data sets that are either themed around Illinois, or themed around things that we think that they are interested in. And so that's been something that we started doing when we first piloted the course, and have continued to do that each semester. And the students really

From Social Systems to Statistics: Stanford’s Innovative Data Science Degrees (feat. Mallory Nobles & Dennis Sun)

Nov 15 2024 15 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“One of the ways we incorporate ethics is by trying to expose students to a plurality of perspectives. So we want students to hear from people with different perspectives on what it means to engage with data ethically, and so we do this by hosting guest speakers. We encourage students to take classes in a variety of departments around ca

From Law to Data Science: Camilo Andrés De la Cruz Arboleda’s Journey into Tech Education

Nov 01 2024 22 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“Entonces lo que yo procuro hacer con los estudiantes que son de áreas como de humanidades o ciencias sociales, es asociarlo como a situaciones cotidianas, haciendo analogías o buscando ejemplos de cosas que cualquiera ha experimentado. Eh como que se desarrolle esa intuición y ya después pues lo lo le ponemos como él la forma de de

Data Science in Two-Year Colleges: From Curriculum Design to Industry Collaboration (feat. Crystal Wiggins)

Oct 18 2024 20 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“I literally collected 150 jobs on Indeed.com and parsed out all of the skills that were mentioned in all the jobs, created a graphic and said, Okay, here's the courses we already have that have these skills, and here's the skills I need to create courses for.”Today, we sat down with Crystal Wiggins, a pioneering educator in two-year c

From Software to Academia: Langdon White’s Mission for Inclusive Data Science

Oct 04 2024 26 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“I developed a class called DS 100, which is in a lot of ways very similar [to Data 8], with the primary objective being, I want people to walk away from the class with saying I understand what data science is. I can do a little bit of programming, and now it's up to me whether I think it's interesting or not. I don't want anyone ever to

Exploring Digital Humanities (feat. Lauren F. Klein)

Sep 20 2024 23 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“So what we do in Data Feminism is try to synthesize a whole lot of feminist ways of thinking about the world, that have to do with questions of bias and oppression, that have to do with questions of sort of unequal power, and who gets to make choices about how to design systems — with these sort of really broad social questions, we tr

Navigating the Intersection of Sociology and Data Science (feat. David J. Harding)

Sep 06 2024 25 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“We're kind of in an early phase among most social scientists, trying to figure out what's new here, what's different, and how to integrate it with our standard social science methodological concerns, which I don't think we should abandon. Thinking about the relationship between theory, concept and measurement. For example, that's one of

Navigating the Data Maze: Building a Foundation for Analytical Thinking (feat. Jevin West)

May 10 2024 28 mins  
Access the full transcript for this episode“You can be hoodwinked with data in the same way that you can be hoodwinked by a car salesman. And so the idea of [Calling B******t] was to step away from all the details of the black box: that's the statistical procedures, the algorithms, etc. (Not to say that we don't pay attention to what we do.) But the idea is to really pay attentio