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Program Seeks to Nurture ‘Data Science Culture’ at Universities

"What this partnership is trying to do is change the culture of universities to create a data science culture."

The modern flood of data comes in a many forms — sensor data, genomic data, web click streams and credit card transactions, to name a few. The disparate data sources are often called "silos," suggesting the challenge of mingling different data sets to generate insights.

But if the data is in a silo, so are the people, often isolated in their fields of expertise. In universities, that problem is a key obstacle to progress in data science, according to academic research scientists.

By STEVE LOHR

Full Story: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/program-seeks-to-nurture-data-science-culture-at-universities/?nl=technology&emc=edit_ct_20131114&_r=0

(Many thanks to Pat Little for sharing this)

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