A local nonprofit that focuses on building the skills and potential of northeast Indiana youth in business ownership, leadership and the arts will host an inaugural fundraising gala next weekend.
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Campus brings parent s tech expertise to area
Forward-thinking Purdue University Fort Wayne leaders already were hard at work by the time a Brookings Institution report published in February showed Indiana doesn t prioritize tech spending.
Peter Dragnev, a mathematics professor; Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Carl Drummond; and Alessandro Selvitella, assistant professor of data science and applied statistics; first made a pitch in August for a possible solution. They sought to expand to Fort Wayne an innovative idea-and-information-sharing hub that s been in place since 2018 at Purdue s flagship campus in West Lafayette.
The university announced this week that PFW and Purdue Polytechnic Institute in Anderson are the first campuses that will see that expansion as part of Indiana Digital Crossroads, an initiative aimed at using data to spark new ideas and partnerships among colleges, students and employers. It s an offshoot of a Purdue “data mine” founded three
Purdue to launch Indiana Digital Crossroads with $10 million grant from Lilly Endowment
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – When Mark Daniel Ward launched Purdue University’s Data Mine initiative in 2018, he worked with fewer than 100 students from various academic backgrounds who wanted to learn about data science and how to use it in their careers.
Fast forward to today. Ward, professor of statistics and director of The Data Mine, is coordinating real-world projects with 26 companies in Indiana and beyond. He’s offering data science training to 600 Purdue undergraduate and graduate students this year, with plans to reach more than 1,000 students in the year ahead.