About The Data Mine
The Data Mine is a living, learning and research-based community created to introduce students to data science concepts and equip them to create solutions to real-world problems. Members of The Data Mine will be part of a team, living, studying and ultimately, performing data-driven research together. The Data Mine is part of Purdue University’s Office of the Provost, which is designed to train students across all majors with the data literacy needed to succeed in a data-driven world.
Our Mission: Data Science for ALL
The Data Mine is open to students from any major of study. Students will learn some of the skills most sought after by companies and graduate programs. No computational background is required. The key trait for joining The Data Mine is the desire to learn data science in a rigorous, but welcoming environment.
Explore The Data Mine Programs
General Cohort // Seminar
The Data Mine seminar cohort is a supportive environment for freshmen 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.
Corporate Partners Program
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 Data Mine
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