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“So if we’re able to integrate the [computer science and data science] topics in one course, we let students experience both fields before they have to make a premature choice of which one they want to study in more depth […] But, I think it helps to put them side by side, so that students can appreciate what they both are and how they might use them.” 

In this episode, Kathi Fisler, a research professor and the associate director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Brown University, speaks on how Bootstrap, a program she co-directs, introduces Data Science education to the K-12 school system. Among other things, she speaks on the importance of integrating Data Science curricula and Data Engineering into Computer Science coursework and ponders the future of Data Science education and how to foster a sense of community within the field. 

“Data science education is poised to get to some really interesting places, if we can figure out how to get there”

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