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“Engaging in Data Science at the undergraduate level [at UC Berkeley] first wasn’t any particular person’s idea…they concluded that: instead of first creating a graduate program and having things filter down to the undergraduate level years later, we would start with a first year course for undergraduates and build from there!”

In this episode, John DeNero, the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in Computing, Data Science, and Society and Associate Teaching Professor in the UC Berkeley EECS department, discusses his role in bringing Data Science Education to undergraduates at Cal. He also speaks on his passion for teaching introductory courses, and how he approaches creating them. John has played an integral role throughout our UC Berkeley Data Science journey, and we hope you enjoy hearing his unique perspective and words of wisdom!

“Our goal at Berkeley has always been to make this a campus-wide endeavor where all the different domain experts get to contribute to students’ education. That’s a really natural thing to do at the undergraduate level.”

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