the edsa curriculum
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The EDSA curriculumElena Simperl
University of Southampton, UK
edsa-project.eu@edsa_project
EDSA activities• Surveys• Interviews• Dashboards
Landscaping
• Modular, media-rich, multiple languages
• Core, domain-specific, and technology-specific topics
Curriculum and
courseware• Video lectures• Professional training• MOOCs• eBooks
Courses and
learning analytics
Initial Version of Module
Final Module: eBook & Course
Webinar – Final Recording
Webinar – First Recording
Collection ofModule Materials Slides – First Version
Slides – Final Version
Stakeholder CommunitiesIndustrial Advisory Board
Demand AnalysisReflection
Module DisseminationOnline & F2F
Learning Analytics
CurriculaEDSA Analytics
Dashboard
Reconfiguring & Repurposing
LearnersLearning Delivery
End-to-end approach
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Curriculum
Foundations• Foundations of
Data Science• Foundations of
Big Data • Statistical /
Mathematical Foundations
• Programming / Computational Thinking (R and Python)
Storage and Processing• Data
Management and Curation
• Big Data Architecture
• Distributed Computing
• Stream Processing
Analysis• Machine
Learning, Data Mining and Basic Analytics
• Big Data Analytics
• Process Mining
Interpretation and Use• Data
Visualisation • Visual Analytics • Finding Stories
in Open Data • Data
Exploitation
Curriculum dimensions • Audience
– Statisticians (modeling, numerical insights, etc.)– Analysts (more involved with data gathering and reporting)– Managers, product owners, CDOs– Programmers, developers and system engineers– Data managers (including security experts)
• Tools and programming languages • Type of data• Industry sector• Level
– Basic– Advanced– Expert
Resourcescourses.edsa-project.eu
Challenges• Different audiences• Different sectors• Different disciplines• Learning methods– Self-learning– Peer-learning– Virtual labs
EDSA ambassadors program
Help train the next generation of data scientists
Be part of the 1st EU-wide initiative on data science
Ambassador
Certified courses
Trainer Trainee
Find out more at
edsa-project.eu @edsa_project