Inclusive Data Science News

Student reflection piece of the RTTP conference.

The ASSETT (Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) Innovation Incubator is thrilled to announce that a team of Arts and Sciences faculty has won a $150,000 Humanities Connections Implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project, titled “Humanities Core Competencies as Data Acumen: Integrating Humanities...

On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 from 12-1pm MDT , Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team and the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) for a virtual panel discussion with Professor Andrea Armstrong, Professor Judson Mitchell and student collaborators from Loyola University New Orleans on their...

As part of their CODE:SWITCH speaker series, the ASSETT (Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team is thrilled to host a keynote talk by Cathy O’Neil author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy . O’Neil will...

Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for their 2021-22 CODE:SWITCH speaker series kick-off featuring a virtual watch part of the CODED BIAS documentary and Q&A with director Shalani Kantayya on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 7:00-8:30pm Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy...

Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for their 2021-22 CODE:SWITCH speaker series kick-off featuring a virtual keynote by Kevin Roose on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 2:30-3:30pm This event is co-sponsored by ASSETT and the President’s Fund for the Humanities. Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist...

ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science Team Receives National Science Foundation Award for their Project, CODE:SWITCH (Collaborative Data Science Education: Statistics With Integration of Technology, Computing, and the Humanities)

The ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team’s new Interdisciplinary Data Science for All course (AHUM 1825) is open for enrollment for fall 2021! AHUM 1825 is a hands-on course designed to teach students the basics of computational inquiry while also developing a critical understanding of the assumptions, risks, and...

Data exist all around us, from the tweets flying by on social media to the groceries being scanned at the market. This growing wealth of information, known as Big Data, provides exciting opportunities for transforming our economy, reshaping our political and social lives and impacting many, if not most, disciplines...