USDA Helps Students Get Hands-On Data Science Experience
- GCN Staff for GCN August 5th, 2016
- Source: https://gcn.com/blogs/pulse/2016/08/usda-open-data-summer-camp.aspx
Forty Washington, D.C. area high-school and middle school students spent part of their summer vacation at Open Data Summer Camp, learning how to apply data science to food safety and agricultural issues.
Working with the Department of Agriculture, New York University’s Governance Lab designed a curriculum to help students understand the fundamentals of data science and how it can be used to study agricultural issues such as the monetary costs of foodborne illness.
Using data supplied by USDA, the students worked with tools and data science methodologies to get experience gathering and cleaning data, analysis, visualization and presentation.
