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Preparing Future Data Scientists for Jobs of Tomorrow
While organizations amass data they want to leverage, Purdue University is working to marry data science academics to those real-world needs.
The academic sector continues to adapt curriculum to better match in-demand tech jobs and The Data Mine program at Purdue University expects to see its enrollment ramp up in kind.
Mark Daniel Ward, director of The Data Mine and professor of statistics at Purdue, says The Data Mine is an initiative to prepare data science students for emerging and evolving roles as data scientists a field that continues to see change as mountains and lakes of data accumulate.