NCSSM’s 2024 Data Science Summer Institute
NCSSM-Morganton, July 8-12, 2024
Announcements
Pre-workshop Announcement
Please visit https://datahub.ncssm.edu and log in using the credentials that were emailed to you. We’ll use this tool a bit this week, and verifying your account works ahead of time will be very helpful!
Schedule
Monday - Welcome and Data Collection
- 1:00pm
- LessonWelcome & What is Data Science?
- Google Slides
- Data Portraits
- 2:00pm
- Hands-OnData Collection Activity
- Template, Google Sheet
- 3:00pm
- LessonData Wrangling
Tuesday
- 9:00am
- Speaker Zarek Drozda - DS4E
- Google Slides
- Title: The State of Data Science
- A national overview of data science education efforts including curriculum and standards from across the country.
- Additional resources
- Data Advocacy Deck (several example slides for making the “pitch” to school leaders)
- DS4E Classroom Resource Center
- Sign up to join the DS4E Slack Community
- 10:15am
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 10:30am
- Speaker Taryn Shelton - NC State
- Google Slides, Teacher Guide
- Title: Real Teaching with Real Data
- Learn how using a case study format combined with authentic, community-relevant data can drive student agency and better engage students across subject areas. We will learn some entry-level data-wrangling and cleaning skills to make raw data more accessible in the classroom.
- 11:45am
- 📸 Group Photo on the Academic Commons library atairs
- 12:00pm
- 🥘 Lunch 🥘
Beginner Track - The Barn
- 1:00pm
- Lesson Data Visualization
- Google Slides
- What is it, and why is it important?
- 2:00pm
- Hands-On Visualizing our data
- Using your tool of choice, investigate the data we collected yesterday. What is interesting about it? What do you notice? Are there any observations you might want to dig deeper into?
- 2:15pm
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 2:30pm
- TechnologyExploring Tools for Data Visualization
- CoDAP, Google Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks
- Datasets: Chronic Kidney Disease, World Statistics
Advanced Track - Leviton Classroom
- 1:00pm
- Technology Introduction to Pandas
- Google Slides
- Pandas is a versatile data science library that can be used with the Python programming language. We’ll go over common uses for pandas that include data wrangling and visualization.
- 2:15pm
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 2:30pm
- Lesson K-means clustering
- Google Slides, Handout
- A great algorithm to introduce students to unsupervised learning is the k-means algorithm. We’ll go over the basics of how the algorithm works, and how to implement it using the python library,
sklearn
Wednesday
- 9:00am
- Speaker Vrinda Desai - NCICS
- Slides
- Title: Data in the Classroom
- We will go over available NOAA data and resources for use in the classroom. In addition, there is an interactive activity to access, analyze, and visualize NOAA data using Jupyter Notebooks.
- 10:15pm
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 10:30 am
- Speaker Gemma Mojica & Emily Thrasher - NC State
- Slides
- Title: Infusing Data Science Practices in the Classroom
- Participants will engage with a data visualization and a framework for making sense of data visualizations. Participants will also investigate NOAA weather station data using a plugin in CODAP.
- 12:00pm
- 🥘 Lunch 🥘
Beginner Track - The Barn
- 1:00pm
- LessonSimulation Based Inference
- Google Slides
- Unlocking computational power
- 1:45pm
- Hands-On Manually simulating experiments: Flipping coins and tagging penguins
- Coin Flipping, Penguin Tags
- 2:15pm
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 2:30pm
- Technology Using computers to simulate at scale
Advanced Track - Leviton Classroom
- 1:00pm
- Technology Otter-grader
- Google Slides
- The
otterPython library will let you create data science lessons that include code cells that provide students real-time feedback on their work, as well as auto-graded homework assignments. We’ll demonstrate how to author assignments using this tool.- 2:15pm
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 2:30pm
- Technology MyST Markdown
- Help you and your students write technical documents that are designed to highlight working with computational notebooks. This interdisciplinary tool can build beautiful websites and print articles with an eye towards data anlaysis and code generated figures.
Everyone!
- 5:30pm
- 🍻 Happy Hour Reception
- Come grab a drink and socialize this evening at Fonta Flora brewery, right across the street from The Fairfield Inn and Suites in downtown Morganton. We have the side room reserved for our event. There will be a food truck on site this evening. Fonta Flora is known for their beer, but also serve wine, and have non-alcoholic drink options available as well. Hope to see you there!
Thursday
- 9:00 am
- Speaker Doug Hague - UNC Charlotte
- Google Drive
- Title: Storytelling with data
- 10:15am
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 10:30am
- Speaker Henry Bowe - Hack the Hood
- About Hack the Hood, Using Tech for Justice
- Title: Exploring Hack the Hood and Sociotechnical problems
- 12:00pm
- 🥘 Lunch 🥘
Beginner Track - The Barn
- 1:00pm
- Lesson Making predictions with data
- Google Slides
- The Galton Model (Parents and Children)
- 1:30pm
- Hands-On The Midge Problem
- Google Doc
- Midge Teacher file Google Doc
- An introduction to classification
- 2:15pm
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 2:30pm
- Technology Use a computer to speed up your predications. We’ll use google sheets and python to explore how to speed up classification.
Advanced Track - Leviton Classroom
- 1:00pm
- Lesson Introduction to Network Science
- Google Slides
- We will cover the basics of network theory and explore real-world examples. You will have the opportunity to work on a dataset to create, visualize, and analyze a network.
- 2:15pm
- ☕ Coffee Break ☕
- 2:30pm
- Lesson Creating a Data Science lesson
- Sample Activities
- Learn about a framework for creating data science lessons and courses that you can use to develop your own materials in the future.
Friday - Wrapping it up!
- 9:00am
- Session AI in Data Science
- Google Slides, K-means example
- A window into how data science is changing because of AI tools
- 10:00am
- Panel Service Learning in Data Science @ NCSSM
- Slides
- A student panel of NCSSM students sharing how they’ve been able to use their data science in the field to help community organizations
- 11:00am
- Where to go from here?
- We hope that this is just the start of your data science education journey. As we close out the week, make sure you’re set up with great resources and a plan for continued growth.
- Backup Datahub
- We hope that this is just the start of your data science education journey. As we close out the week, make sure you’re set up with great resources and a plan for continued growth.
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- Feedback
- Survey Form