{"id":7832,"date":"2014-08-03T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:21:22","slug":"jsm2014-data-scientists-and-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=7832","title":{"rendered":"Data Scientists and Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the Statistics community can best respond to the demand for data science and analytics education was the topic of a presentation by the Institute&#8217;s director Dr. Michael Rappa at the <a title=\"Joint Statistical Meetings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Statistical Meetings<\/a> held this week in Boston. Data Science and its relationship to conventional statistics degree programs is the focus of an intensifying dialogue in academic departments across the country. Speaking to <!--more-->an audience of 200 attendees, Dr. Rappa encouraged Statistics faculty to play a leadership role in developing new curricula that squarely targets the broad set of skills individuals need to be productive data scientists. The invited special presentation was part of a session organized by Dr. Ming Li and chaired by Dr. Martha Gardner titled &#8220;The Industrial Internet and Cyber-Physical Systems, an Opportunity for Statisticians in the Era of Big Data and Data Science.&#8221; Also speaking were Bill Ruh, Vice President and Global Technology Director at <a title=\"General Electric\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General Electric<\/a>; and Dr. Sokwoo Rhee, Presidential Innovation Fellow with <a title=\"The White House\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The White House<\/a> and the <a title=\"U.S. Department of Commerce\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Department of Commerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Statistics community can best respond to the demand for data science and analytics education was the topic of a presentation by the Institute&#8217;s director Dr. Michael Rappa at the Joint Statistical Meetings held this week in Boston. Data Science and its relationship to conventional statistics degree programs is the focus of an intensifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25975,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions\/25975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}