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“We take the perspective that data science is truly something unique and different, it’s not just stats plus programming…”

Hello, and welcome back to the fifth season of the Data Science Education Podcast. In this episode, we’re chatting with Bradley Voytek, a professor in cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. He shares with us how he created the first data science class at UCSD and how that later led him to being involved in the creation of the Data Science major within UCSD’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. He also touches on his neuroscience background, how that shaped the way he approaches data science education, and why data science education should be an interdisciplinary effort between all fields.

“COGS 9 is meant to be the first foray into the world of data, for all of its goods and all of its ills; so we created that class with the intent of teaching students how to think about data and the power and the peril.”

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