federica bianco
astro | data science | data for good
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University of Delaware
Department of Physics and Astronomy
federica bianco
Biden School of Public Policy and Administration
Data Science Institute
Rubin Observatory Construction Project - Deputy Project Scientist
Rubin Observatory Construction Project - Deputy Project Scientist
Rubin Science Collaborations - Coordinator
slides available at
This is a living land acknowledgement developed in consultation with tribal leadership of Poutaxet, what is now known as the “Delaware Bay,” including: the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware, the Nanticoke Indian Tribe, and the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation in 2021. We thank these leaders for their generosity.
The University of Delaware occupies lands vital to the web of life for Lenni Lenape and Nanticoke, who share their ancestry, history, and future in this region. UD has financially benefited from this regional occupation as well as from Indigenous territories that were expropriated through the United States land grant system. European colonizers and later the United States forced Nanticoke and Lenni Lenape westward and northward, where they formed nations in present-day Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Canada. Others never left their homelands or returned from exile when they could. We express our appreciation for ongoing Indigenous stewardship of the ecologies and traditions of this region. While the harms to Indigenous people and their homelands are beyond repair, we commit to building right relationships going forward by collaborating with tribal leadership on actionable institutional steps.
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2015-2019
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PNS
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2015-2019
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2021&23
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Generating and Interpreting Evidence For Evidence-based Decisions In Urban Environments
small class (20)
grad - Public Policy
2015-2019
2019-now
2019-now
2019-now
2021&23
ML
PNS
DS
PS
2015-2019
2019-now
2019-now
2019-now
2021&23
Generating and Interpreting Evidence For Evidence-based Decisions In Urban Environments
small class (20) grad - Public Policy
exporting these modules:
Machine Learning for Natural Scientists
small class (20)
Grads - University of Parma Italy
ML
PNS
DS
PS
absolute code novices => proficient hackers
data enthusiasts => domain experts
used to structured homework => experience with open investigation
no functional coding => coding for research
domain experience
minimum coding background
little experience w quantitative inference
not accustomed to participatory work
Generating and Interpreting Evidence For Evidence-based Decisions In Urban Environments
small class (20) grad - Public Policy
exporting these modules:
Machine Learning for Natural Scientists
small class (20)
Grads - University of Parma Italy
Data Science provides an opportunity for inclusion in STEM
Including students from population traditionally withheld from STEM
Including STEM newcomers
Introducing students to research methods
Validating Student's Background, Experience, Domain knowledge, Creativity
@fedhere
Recipe:
- Real Data from Real Problems
- Collaborative project-based work
- Free access, industry-ready tools
- On-going discussions of DS ethics
- Discussion-based classroom elements and live coding by the students
harder to achieve
equalizing technology access:
Slack (or discourse), GitHub, GoogleColab, tableau, (authorea, carto), Python
validating everyone's background
(assigned roles: data steward, domain expert, methodology design lead)
real problems from the literature (scientific or public access work, including blogs, medium posts)
@fedhere
students unpack ethical aspects of each project
Data Ethics is now a core course of the UD MSDS
Grading
Grading: while I talk a lot about coding practices, the grade is always only based on the analysis, not the code:
(1) are the figure telling the story and telling it correctly
(2) figure captions - are the figures interpreted correctly
(3) reproducibility: does the code run
- Project-based includes a with 1-1 interview
@fedhere
SLIDES
ML
PNS
DS
PS
github.com/fedhere/MLTSA22_FBianco
(ongoing, some material hidden)
Thank you!
Federica B. Bianco
University of Delaware
Physics and Astronomy
Biden School of Public Policy and Administration
Data Science Institute
NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress
please email me if you have questions! fbianco@udel.edu
@fedhere
Inclusive Data Science Pedagogy Across Domains and Student Populations
By federica bianco
