Paul M. Leidig
Lillian Cassel
ABSTRACT
The ACM Data Science Taskforce was established in 2017 by the ACM Education Council and tasked with articulating the role of computing discipline-specific contributions to the emerging field of data science. This taskforce is seeking to define what the computing contributions are to this multidisciplinary field, in order to provide guidance for computer science or similar departments offering data science programs of study at the undergraduate level. This panel session will provide an update of the work of the ACM Data Science Taskforce and will engage the ITiCSE international community in this effort. Panelists are members of the taskforce and will report on version 2 of a draft report released Fall 2019, and the activities to-date, including a summary of data science curricular efforts, as well as the current articulation of computing competencies. This session should be of interest to all conference attendees, but especially faculty developing bachelors-level curricula in Data Science.
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