data: past present and future;

• professors: Madi Whitman & chris wiggins
• class time: MW 11:40am-12:55pm; 303 Seeley W. Mudd Building

  The class

  • "data: past present and future" is open to students in SEAS, CC, GS, and GSAS.
  • CC/GS students: The course satisfies one science requirement
  • SEAS students: The counts towards "nontech elective" credit
  • BC students: This course satisfies Barnard's T&D general education requirement.
  • History majors: this course counts as a history course for history major.
  • although we will code in Python no prerequisites and no programming experience is required (we will be using pre-authored notebooks and using Google's Colab; you will not need to install anything).
  • For more information on the course please see the 2016 COI proposal here.
  • Slides from Day 1 (Jan 12, 2021)

  Find out more

  • Please do read this article in the Columbia Spectator, October 2016.
  • Please do read this article in the Columbia Record, February 2017.
  • Please do read this article in the Columbia Magazine, Spring 2017.
  • Please do read this Op-Ed in the Data Science Institute's Voices section, December 2017.

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