Z519: Information Analytics

IntroductionMaking Sense of Data

We are living in the data-driven society

Tell me your story about dealing with data to make decision

Data-Driven Society

What kind of data do you have or usually work with? Survey Bibliographic data Network data

What kind of story can you try to tell with your data?

Making Sense of Data

Our world is filled with data Making sense of data should become

the common skill of data society citizen who constantly makes decision based on data

Making sense of data: Structure Visualize Analyze

Making Sense of Data

Data Science - Google

Google has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Called “Making Sense of Data”

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/26/google-announces-an-online-data-interpretation-class-for-the-general-public/

Google is helping to solve a major gap in the current education system, while at the same time promoting one of its products. “Making Sense of Data is intended for anybody who works with data on a daily basis, such as students, teachers, journalists, and small business owners, and who wants to learn more about how to apply that information to practical problems

There are countless teachers and business people who need a quick course on basic numeracy.

Google Fusion Tables Project (https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232)

Data Science - Google

White House: call for more data science-literate workers

$37M White House Initiative to encourage data science work at American Universities

White House to universities: We need more data scientists

http://www.fastcompany.com/3021614/fast-feed/white-house-to-universities-we-need-more-data-scientists

White House

http://www.datasociety.net/ http://www.datakind.org/ http://dssg.io/ http://www.sumall.org/ http://www.ushahidi.com/ http://crisis.net/ http://blueengine.org/ http://www.unglobalpulse.org/ http://www.mdrc.org/ http://www.nyc.gov/html/analytics/html/home/home.shtml

Data Science for Social Good

Work as a team to pick up one project and tell us more about it. Share with us other similar projects.

Data Scientists Is data science for computer or data

science for human? http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/08/the-

question-to-ask-before-hiring-a-data-scientist/

http://www.kdnuggets.com/ http://www.kdd.org/kdd2014/ http://dssg.uchicago.edu/kddworksho

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