The Origins of Data Science
This field combines statistics, computer science, and domain expertise to analyze and interpret data.
What is data science?
This consortium of historically Black institutions in Atlanta is the focus of the AUC Data Science Initiative.
What is the Atlanta University Center (AUC)?
Companies like Netflix and Spotify use this type of algorithm to recommend content based on user preferences.
What is a recommendation algorithm?
This professional uses algorithms, models, and statistical techniques to analyze data and support decision-making in organizations.
What is a data scientist?
This initiative aims to increase diversity in data science by providing opportunities to HBCU students.
What is the AUC Data Science Initiative?
This term refers to the process of extracting insights and patterns from large sets of raw data.
What is data mining?
The AUC Data Science Initiative was launched in 2020 to increase representation in this fast-growing field.
What is data science?
Ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft use data science to estimate travel times and calculate this.
What is fare pricing?
This role focuses on building and maintaining the infrastructure that allows for the efficient storage and analysis of big data.
What is a data engineer?
This annual event hosted by the AUC Data Science Initiative allows HBCU students to present their research using data-driven approaches.
What is the AUC Data Science Symposium?
Known for his work in probability theory, this mathematician's theorem laid foundational work for Bayesian statistics.
Who is Thomas Bayes?
The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC) consists of these four historically Black colleges and universities, which collaborate to promote data science education and initiatives.
What are Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Morehouse School of Medicine?
This industry uses data science to predict fashion trends, optimize supply chains, and personalize shopping experiences for customers online.
What is the retail industry?
This field of study focuses on enabling machines to learn from data, without being explicitly programmed for specific tasks.
What is machine learning?
This competition, organized by the AUC Data Science Initiative, challenges students to use data analysis to solve real-world issues, with a focus on creating social impact.
What is the AUC Data Challenge?
This concept, used in statistics and machine learning, measures how much a data point deviates from the average of the dataset.
What is standard deviation?
This AUC institution is the first historically Black liberal arts college for women, with a strong data science program.
What is Spelman College?
By analyzing geospatial data, governments can use data science to make decisions about urban planning, transportation, and this.
What is infrastructure development?
This programming language, often taught as an introduction to data science, is known for its simplicity and powerful libraries like Pandas and NumPy.
What is Python?
The AUC Data Science Initiative partners with this foundation to offer resources and opportunities that support minority students pursuing careers in data science.
What is Mastercard?
This term, first coined in 1962 by John Tukey, describes the process of analyzing data to produce actionable insights.
What is exploratory data analysis (EDA)?
The AUC Data Science Initiative’s mission is to close the racial gap in data science, where African Americans currently make up less than this percentage of the U.S. tech workforce.
What is 7%?
This technique, widely used in predictive modeling, assigns numerical values to data points to predict future trends based on past data.
What is regression analysis?
In addition to data cleaning and wrangling, this emerging role uses advanced techniques like deep learning to create models that predict human behavior.
What is a machine learning engineer?
The AUC Data Science Initiative collaborates with this federal agency to support research and educational programs focused on advancing data science and computing capabilities at HBCUs, helping to address disparities in STEM fields.
What is the National Science Foundation (NSF)?