The Data Mine is a supportive environment for students in any major from any background who want to learn data science skills. Students will have hands-on experience with computational tools for representing, extracting, manipulating, interpreting, transforming, and visualizing data, especially big data sets, and in effectively communicating insights about data.

Seminar is a 1 credit, project based, learn by doing, AND lecture-free course where students:

• Discover data science and professional development opportunities.
• Identify the difference between research computing and basic personal computing data science capabilities.
• Design efficient search strategies while acquiring new data science skills.
• Devise an appropriate data science strategy to answer a research question.
• Apply data science techniques through project-based work.

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The Corporate Partners Program is a student experience course with data driven projects from industry. Students enroll in a project based on their interests. Projects designed to run for a full academic year with weekly mentorship from a corporate partner mentor.

Students in The Data Mine Corporate Partners Program will:

• Apply data science tools to manage data sets from Corporate Partners through researching, cleaning, processing, analyzing, and visualizing data.
• Apply Agile project management methodology to plan task ownership and decision making, collaborate with scrum teams to accomplish the increment during 2-week sprints, review the product backlog, and reflect on areas of success and improvement.
• Engage with peers to identify and overcome complex challenges in the data sciences.
• Effectively communicate findings of technical research through detailed documentation and team presentations.
• Participate in professional development opportunities in order to prepare for your career.

Students can apply to the program and enroll during class registration.

Ready to learn more and join as a corporate partner? Contact Nicholas Lenfestey

The goal of The Indiana Data Mine is to create regional data science hubs and begin geographically based programs designed to engage businesses and undergraduate students. As Indiana’s land-grant university, Purdue will leverage its presence throughout the state to develop these regional data hubs to energize and prepare communities, employers and high school and college students for jobs of the future. This will allow Purdue to share the success of its Data Mine and integrative data science initiative more broadly.

Students who become involved with The Indiana Data Mine will learn data science skills through immersive engagement with Indiana-based companies that will potentially lead to careers in Indiana, enhancing the state’s surging tech sector. That growth is fueled by an explosion of data in the world, and industries from medical to professional sports want to know how to interpret that information.2021 Press Release

Ready to get started? Contact Jessica Jud

The National Data Mine Network enables undergraduate students at minority-serving institutions to learn data science with hands-on work in research or data science projects informed by industry partners.

The National Data Mine Network directly funds 300 undergraduate students at a cross-section of minority-serving institutions with 100 research stipends per year.

The students will use high-performance computing to solve data-driven challenges that arise in every sector of industry, including biomedical engineering, health care engineering, image processing, manufacturing, supply chain management and transportation.2021 Press Release

Ready to get started? Contact Jessica Jud