DEPT. OF EDUCATION
FOR THE BIRDS
BY REBECCA MEAD
JANUARY 6, 2014
New venture for ex-Yale president: Chicken Club at Avenues
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2014/01/06/140106ta_talk_mead HT @colinbmurphy #education
Pavel Pevzner is starting a MOOC on Bioinformatics in Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/course/bioinformatics) and 23 & me is starting a MOOC on genomics in udacity
(https://www.udacity.com/course/bio110).
Stuart Kim’s #Personalgenomics class @Stanford: The college class that could reveal your real father
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/14/the_college_class_that_could_reveal_your_real_father via @lindaavey
URLs for a couple of courses recommended on Coursera:
Parallel Programming – especially with GPUs (Wenmei Hwu, UIUC): https://class.coursera.org/hetero-2012-001/class
Machine Learning (Andrew Ng, Stanford):
https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/class
Debate rages over availability of history dissertations in NYT: Does a 6-year embargo make sense? http://bit.ly/13VgQCD via @ivanoransky
MT @KromerBigData: #DataScience in @nytimes http://bit.ly/13mPhxS McKinsey says ~60% more in field needed for ~500K new jobs in 5yrs
QT:”As an academic field, it cuts across disciplines, with courses in statistics, analytics, computer science and math, coupled with the specialty a student wants to analyze, from patterns in marine life to historical texts.”
QT:”Universities can hardly turn out data scientists fast enough. To meet demand from employers, the United States will need to increase the number of graduates with skills handling large amounts of data by as much as 60 percent, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute. There will be almost half a million jobs in five years, and a shortage of up to 190,000 qualified data scientists, plus a need for 1.5 million executives and support staff who have an understanding of data.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/30/120430fa_fact_auletta
ends with a discussion of distance learning