Open Source Data Science Masters

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#1

@bjelkeman tweeted about this yesterday.

Thomas Bjelkeman @bjelkeman · Oct 12
If I was just about to go to university, I’d go to the uni that allowed me to study this: #datascience http://datasciencemasters.org/

The Open-Source Data Science Masters is an open-source curriculum for learning Data Science, built up from open and free resources. The topics covered are highly relevant to IATI and to the wider post-2015 Data Revolution. These are the skills the development community needs right now, and will increasingly need in the future.

Would people in the IATI community be interested in forming a virtual learning group to work through the curriculum together and support/mentor each other? I’m sure we would all benefit from a community supporting our continued professional development.

If you’re interested, please indicate in the comments below. Please contribute any suggestions on the next steps and how we might actually run such a community.

#2

Thanks John. As you say, the international development community needs this type of knowledge and it is a great idea you had at working on this together, like a virtual university course. Maybe we could even get some university to support us.

This stretches beyond IATI, but maybe we can just host a sub-category here until we need something bigger?

#3

Hi John,
Yes What you suggest is a great idea. I may be too late though … I’ve just logged on now to this discussion facility from your latest newsletter. I would be very interested in an on line course on open source data.
Paula Nolan
Irish Aid

#4

Hello Johan,
Yes, you are absolutely right, insights from data is very important.
what I suggest is to make aground for all of the participants, is to join Coursera datascience specialization, this is the only free track available to my knowledge…
I already completed 5 courses of them, and the courses is fantastic but needs more hours of study time than they suggest.

#5

Great idea John. I just completed an on-line course on Open Data by Delft University of Technology. To have a course on Open Source Data Science Master will really be wonderful.

#6

Just seen this pop up again - did anyone try it out?