By Aaron R. Williams and Claire McKay Bowen of the Urban Institute 🎥 Video Interview: DS4E Communications Specialist Shea Stripling speaks with Aaron R. Williams, Lead Data Scientist for Statistical Computing at the Urban Institute, and Claire McKay Bowen, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, about why data science requires more than math and programming, highlighting the real-world skills that shape meaningful and ethical data work and explaining how educators can introduce these skills...

Inside Indiana’s Call to Action Summit on data science, workforce readiness, and the future of learning Across Indiana, educators are reimagining what it means to prepare students for a data-driven world. There is a growing recognition that today’s learners need more than traditional math sequences alone. They need opportunities to reason with data, ask meaningful questions, interpret information, and apply quantitative thinking to real-world problems. From elementary classrooms to high...

By Tim Erickson, Epistemological Engineering I didn’t expect to learn anything about data science from repainting my porch steps—but that’s exactly what happened.It had been 15 years since my front steps were last painted. They were dirty, you could see bare wood on the treads. After borrowing a friend’s power washer —a sure way to discover just how filthy something has gotten—it was clear I needed to repaint them. I am no home-maintenance expert, so I asked Jan at the local hardware store...