Turing Workshop

for

Data Science Educators

Luisa Cutillo, School of Mathematics

l.cutillo@leeds.ac.uk

Leeds, 21 September 2022

Welcome

and thank you for joining!

Intro and Overview

The background of this workshop

All started with....my role as MSc Program Manager

• Data Science and Analytics

• Statistics

• Statistics with Applications to Finance

• Challenges!

• Networking opportunities with academics and industrial partners on common interest projects

• Deeper interest in DS in education

What this role brought to me

I became a Turing fellow Sept 2021

• Personal research and education proposal

• Interest in tools and computational practices

• Run a Turing workshop for data science educators

Short-Term Pilot Project Turing 2.0

AIM

Ensuring that data science MSc programs remain up to date with respect to tools and computational practices

Main Objectives and themes of this Workshop

• Theme 1 - Train the trainer: How can we keep DS trainers continuously up-to-date?
• Theme 2 - Student’s employability: How can we make our students more employable?
• Theme 3 - Data Science curricula: What is missing in our DS curricula?
• Theme 4 - Data Science for non-Stem disciplines: How can we lower barriers to data science education and careers for non-STEM disciplines?

Short-Term Pilot Project Turing 2.0

Progress so far:​

• DS&AI educators Turing Pilot programme

• LITE fellowship - sponsored by LIDA

• DS&AI education local interest group

• This workshop!

Short-Term Pilot Project Turing 2.0

Data science and AI educators' programme | The Alan Turing Institute

Data science education | The Alan Turing Institute

Data Science Education Interest Group: Sign-up request (office.com)

Today:

Agenda

As this is a hybrid event, there will be two audiences today: online and in-person.

Luisa is the in-person contact.

Ayesha is the online contact.

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