Academic Data Science

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), a senior member of the Commerce Committee, today introduced the bipartisan NSF AI Education Act of 2024 to expand scholarship and professional development opportunities to study artificial intelligence and quantum with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Open data portals hold the promise of transparency and civic engagement, but only if people actually use them. Washington state tackled this challenge head on by conducting a usability study of their portal.

Google and the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics granted 15 universities and colleges up to $1 million each to create new clinics.

OpenAI announced a new version of ChatGPT built specifically for universities to deploy artificial intelligence to students, faculty, researchers and campus operations.

The state program would match private dollars in an effort to build out the technology ecosystem with project funding. Areas of focus could include data centers, operations support or backing lab space.

UC San Diego's TritonGPT, a suite of AI assistants built in-house for data control and cost savings, is writing job descriptions and helping with grant accounting. It's part of UCSD's strategy for handling the mundane.

Northeastern has been growing steadily in recent years at its flagship Boston campus and through mergers with financially struggling peers.

Curricular example from the University of California System

This fall’s release of the 2022 degree completion data from the National Center for Education Statistics is marked by the large increases in the undergraduate and master’s degrees awarded in the recently introduced categories for data analytics and data science. The number of bachelor’s degrees in data science, for example, jumped to 897 in 2022, from 165 in 2021 and 84 in 2020. For bachelor’s degrees in data analytics, the 2020, 2021, and 2022 numbers are 325, 455, and 767, respectively. The number of bachelor’s degrees in statistics also grew, albeit more modestly than in prior years: 5,408 in 2022, a 2 percent increase over 2021.

New York state confirmed a significant 10-year investment in Empire AI, an artificial intelligence computing center at the University at Buffalo that will involve six other colleges and universities.

Whether they major in creative writing, fine arts, film or virtual reality development, students at the Ringling College of Art and Design can add an AI certificate and develop a project portfolio for job searches.

The Phoenix-based Canyon GBS’ first community college client is Joliet Junior College in Illinois, which intends to launch an enterprise AI assistant for a variety of instructional and administrative purposes.

A growing number of students and working professionals are returning to school to learn about artificial intelligence, hoping to cash in on the buzzy market and millions of dollars in support from large tech companies.

The University of Texas at Austin is working with the AI-powered writing assistant platform Grammarly for Education to study what generative artificial intelligence tools might do for academia.

The finance software company Sage made donations to the HBCU Morehouse College and its Center for Broadening Participation in Computing in support of classes in artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship.

We introduce a new survey of professors at roughly 150 of the most research-intensive institutions of higher education in the US. We document seven new features of how research-active professors are compensated, how they spend their time, and how they perceive their research pursuits: (1) there is more inequality in earnings within fields than there is across fields; (2) institutions, ranks, tasks, and sources of earnings can account for roughly half of the total variation in earnings; (3) there is significant variation across fields in the correlations between earnings and different kinds of research output, but these account for a small amount of earnings variation; (4) measuring professors' productivity in terms of output-per-year versus output-per-research-hour can yield substantial differences; (5) professors' beliefs about the riskiness of their research are best predicted by their fundraising intensity, their risk-aversion in their personal lives, and the degree to which their research involves generating new hypotheses; (6) older and younger professors have very different research outputs and time allocations, but their intended audiences are quite similar; (7) personal risk-taking is highly predictive of professors' orientation towards applied, commercially-relevant research.

Workers are interested in applying new tech skills, as well as developing “human” skills that AI can’t replace, according to the learning platform.

CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we are recapping each session. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “How Big Trends in Computing are Shaping Science.” In Part 1, we will hear from Dr. Neil Thompson, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will explain the computing trends shaping the future of science, and why they will impact nearly all areas of scientific discovery.   CCC’s third AAAS panel of the 2024 annual meeting took place on Saturday, February 17th, on the last day of the conference. The panel, comprised Jayson Lynch […]

Dozens of two-year colleges have started data science and analytics programs, with many offering degrees or certificates. Learn about the County College of Morris, Wake Tech, Montgomery College, and College of DuPage here.

With help from a $1 million donation from Google, an all-male historically Black college in Georgia set up a new multipurpose space to serve as a classroom and collaborative computer lab for students and researchers.

Although the two sites together enrolled around 5,500 students at their peak, they hosted just one class between them this semester.