Should we all be teaching "Intro to Data Science" instead of "Intro to Databases"?

Bill Howe; Michael J. Franklin; Juliana Freire; James Frew; Tim Kraska; Raghu Ramakrishnan

doi:10.1145/2588555.2600092

Should we all be teaching "Intro to Data Science" instead of "Intro to Databases"?

Bill Howe, Michael J. Franklin, Juliana Freire, James Frew, Tim Kraska, Raghu Ramakrishnan

Urban Initiative

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

The Database Community has a unique perspective on the challenges and solutions of long-term management of data and the value of data as a resource. In current computer science curricula, however, these insights are typically locked up in the context of the traditional Intro to Databases class that was developed years (or in some cases, decades) before the modern concept of Data Science arose and embedded in the discussion of legacy data management systems. We consider how to bring these concepts front and center into the emerging wave of Data Science courses, degree programs and even departments.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SIGMOD 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	917-918
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781450323765
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2588555.2600092
State	Published - 2014
Event	2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2014 - Snowbird, UT, United States Duration: Jun 22 2014 → Jun 27 2014

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
ISSN (Print)	0730-8078

Other

Other	2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Snowbird, UT
Period	6/22/14 → 6/27/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Information Systems

Access to Document

10.1145/2588555.2600092

Cite this

Howe, B., Franklin, M. J., Freire, J., Frew, J., Kraska, T., & Ramakrishnan, R. (2014). Should we all be teaching "Intro to Data Science" instead of "Intro to Databases"? In SIGMOD 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (pp. 917-918). (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2588555.2600092

Should we all be teaching "Intro to Data Science" instead of "Intro to Databases"? / Howe, Bill; Franklin, Michael J.; Freire, Juliana et al.
SIGMOD 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 917-918 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Howe, B, Franklin, MJ, Freire, J, Frew, J, Kraska, T & Ramakrishnan, R 2014, Should we all be teaching "Intro to Data Science" instead of "Intro to Databases"? in SIGMOD 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 917-918, 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2014, Snowbird, UT, United States, 6/22/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2588555.2600092

Howe B, Franklin MJ, Freire J, Frew J, Kraska T, Ramakrishnan R. Should we all be teaching "Intro to Data Science" instead of "Intro to Databases"? In SIGMOD 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 917-918. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data). doi: 10.1145/2588555.2600092

Howe, Bill ; Franklin, Michael J. ; Freire, Juliana et al. / Should we all be teaching "Intro to Data Science" instead of "Intro to Databases"?. SIGMOD 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 917-918 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data).

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