UC Berkeley is spreading the gospel of data science, a high-demand, high-earning field that can advance social justice, with a proposed new college and free curriculum to schools.
They comb through troves of legal records and video evidence to challenge wrongful convictions. They organize medical data to help personalize health treatments for better care. They scrutinize school test scores to investigate inequities. Finding safe drinking water is easier thanks to an analysis tool they created.across myriad fields to address tough problems.
UC Berkeley’s new college comes as the University of Southern California plans to expand its own footprint in the field with its. USC aims to bring computing instruction to all students — as well as dramatically expand the number of degrees it confers in technology-related fields. It is part of a $1-billion plan to advance student understanding of the digital world across industries.
The class, for instance, used census files to examine the racial demographics of Alabama and determined that the probability of seating an all-white jury in a 1965 case involving a Black defendant’s rape conviction and death sentence was extremely low — but the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the jury selection.
“It’s storytelling with numbers,” said Gloyer, who is weighing offers to transfer to data science programs at UC Berkeley and UCLA.Jonathan Cornejo, a Los Angeles high school senior and son of a single immigrant mother, got into his dream University of California campus but couldn’t afford to go. Then strangers stepped up.
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