Assessing Progress

Data-Driven Discovery
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Accomplishments

New data-focused courses

  • Department-based, e.g., Criminology, Physics and Astronomy
  • Tied to academic initiatives including Digital Humanities and the Penn Opinion Research and Election Studies program

Planning

  • AY19 and AY20 planning discussions around “data-driven discovery” initiative, including Committee on Undergraduate Education discussion about role of data science in curriculum and possible data science major.

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