Relevant universities at home and abroad offer data science courses, degree programs and short-term training courses in data science to train data scientists and engineers. In China, the Chinese University of Hong Kong has established a master's degree in data science and business statistics since 2008; Fudan University started to hold seminars on data science in 2007, began to recruit doctoral students in data science on 20 10, and started to offer postgraduate courses in data science on 20 13. Beihang 20 12 set up a master's degree in big data engineering. In the United States, the University of California, Berkeley, started offering the course of introduction to data science from 20 1 1, and started offering the course of data science and analysis from 20 12. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) started the "Summer School Project of Data Science" from 20 1 1. Columbia University has offered an introduction course of data science since 201,and an applied data science course since 20 13. The training plan of "Data Science Professional Achievement Certification" began in the autumn of 20 13, and it is planned to set up master's degree from 20 14 and doctoral degree from 20 15. The University of Chicago offers a three-month summer training course; New york University will set up a master's degree in data science from the fall of 20 13. The University of Southern California established a master's degree in "Data Science"; The University of Washington has offered the course "Introduction to Data Science" since May 20 13, and awarded the certificate of data science); For students who have completed relevant credits in data science. Syracuse University also offers training programs for advanced research certificates in data science. In Britain, university of dundee has set up a master's degree in data science since 20 13. From the training plan of the above-mentioned talents, data scientists should systematically master the skills related to data analysis, including mathematics, statistics, data analysis, business analysis and natural language processing. , with a wide range of knowledge, the ability to acquire knowledge independently, as well as strong practical ability and innovative consciousness. Among them, only the curriculum of Fudan University emphasizes that data scientists are scientists who study data, not just data engineers or data analysts [2] (see the original White Paper on China's Big Data Technology and Industrial Development 20 13).

The Survey Results of Offering Data Science Courses in China

Mainland China: According to the results of online research, there is no relevant information about data science courses in domestic universities at present, but it does not rule out that some teachers have already set up data science courses (because some teachers may not have established their homepages). Relevant universities have carried out relevant work in the field of data science. For example, Fudan University has Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science and Data Science Research Center, Tsinghua University Institute of Data Science plans to start training Master of Big Data in September 20 14, and East China Normal University has School of Data Science and Engineering. As for teaching materials, Data Science was edited by Zhu and Yun Xiong of Fudan University, and Introduction to Data Science was edited by Yang Xu and Tang Haijing of Beijing Institute of Technology.

Hong Kong: We investigated several major universities in mainland China and Hong Kong, including the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the City University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University and Lingnan University. None of them offered digital science courses. However, several universities offer the course of data analysis, but there is no course information, only a brief introduction. (View the research report)

Taiwan Province Province: Universities in Taiwan Province Province, China Province have not offered courses in data science for the time being, and the published materials have not shown that they are ready to start classes. There is an "Information Science Laboratory" organization in Taiwan Province Province. In 20 14, the "Taiwan Province Information Science Enthusiasts Conference" was held, and some information science-related courses were offered. (View the research report)

Investigation results of offering data science courses abroad

USA: The University of Washington offered an introduction to data science, introducing relational database, MapReduce, NoSQL, basic data analysis, machine learning, visualization and graph theory. Johns Hopkins University has launched nine courses of data science on Coursera, forming a characteristic course of "Data Scientist". (1) data scientist toolbox; (2)R language program development; (3) acquiring and sorting out data; (4) Exploratory data analysis; (5) Repeatability study; (6) statistical inference; (7) Regression model; (8) Practical machine learning; (9) Data product development. New york University offers MS data science program. Columbia University has a School of Data Science. MIT offers an introductory course in computational thinking and data science, which introduces how to use computers to understand real-world phenomena. The target audience is students with Python programming experience and basic knowledge of computational complexity. The course emphasizes that we must pay more attention to the scope of learning, rather than blindly increasing the depth. To this end, the course will provide students with a brief introduction to many topics, so that students can know what tasks they can accomplish with computers in their careers. Topics include drawing, stochastic programming, probability and statistics, random walk, Monte Carlo simulation, data modeling, optimization problems and classification. Harvard University provides CS 109 data science, with GitHubk course materials. (Please check the research report for more details. )

UK: At present, there are about seven universities offering data science and related courses, including Sheffield University, Edinburgh University, University College London, University of East Anglia, Bristol University, Manchester University and Royal holloway College London University. Among them, the University of Sheffield and the University of Edinburgh have summarized this new major most comprehensively, and established corresponding Master of Science. ; Other universities only offer some courses or majors related to data science, such as data and knowledge management in Manda University and knowledge discovery and data mining in the University of East Anglia. (Please check the research report for more details. )

Korea and Japan: Through the network survey of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Pohang University, Seoul University, Tokyo University and Kyoto University in Japan, it can be preliminarily concluded that there are no universities offering data science courses in Korea and Japan. Among them, there are three universities in South Korea that offer courses related to data science, but there are no courseware materials or brief course introductions. (View the research report)