undergraduates

David Diez works on the OpenIntro team, which develops open-source textbooks, statistical software labs, and other course resources for intro-level statistics. This video above is the talk he gave at useR! 2014 entitled “Textbooks fail where Software Succeeds” in which he outlines the challenges unique to open-source textbooks, the state of OpenIntro, and how people can get involved. Below, he discusses these challenges further and offers his thoughts around their solutions.

Below is the first of several exciting data science developments for the younger generation, happening right here in Los Angeles. This project is unique because it engages undergraduates in real data analysis, something that happens quite rarely in a classroom. If projects like this catch on as a new trend, we’re going to have some real competition for our jobs in a few years!