Expanding Data Science Education

Student Jerry Lin has penned an Op-Ed in the Daily Cal titled “UC Berkeley should expand data science education” in which he describes why he supports the creation of  a College of Computing and Data Sciences, a cross-disciplinary program between EECS and statistics.  “This college would house associated majors that currently do not have an institutional home (such as Cognitive Science) while cross-listing existing courses across various departments into a logical, intuitive map, making it easy for students to navigate the data science landscape in a truly interdisciplinary fashion.”  Lin discusses the difficulty non-CS students face when trying to enroll in data science classes vital to their fields of study.  “The interdisciplinary nature of data science demands accessibility,” Lin writes, and this new college could be “a vision for the 21st century.”