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
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Data Science and Analytics
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Statistics
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Statistics with Applications to Finance
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Challenges!
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Networking opportunities with academics and industrial partners on common interest projects
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Deeper interest in DS in education
What this role brought to me
I became a Turing fellow Sept 2021
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Personal research and education proposal
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Interest in tools and computational practices
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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
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.
Housekeeping:
Asking questions Using the chat
Code of conduct Feedback