Data Matters 2024
Data Matters™ is a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government. The short course series is sponsored by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, the National Consortium for Data Science, and RENCI. Data Matters gives students the chance to learn about a wide range of topics in data science, analytics, visualization, curation, and more from expert instructors.
DataBytes: Data Viz, Chemistry, Art, and Public Health: Making Sense of Street Drugs
We analyze street drug samples from around the country in our lab, and we have detected about 300 unique chemical substances. But making sense of chemicals is a notorious challenge, with long names, esoteric molecules, and overlapping pharmacological properties. Therefore, we created a flexible ontology that can adapt over time, and created visualizations to bring […]
Scaling Up: Developing a Coordinating Hub for Data Competency
In this session, Dr. Crista Arangala will introduce Elon University’s Data Nexus. The Data Nexus initiative was created as part of a five-year Quality Enhancement Plan developed during its most recent accreditation process and serves as a coordinating hub for data competency initiatives at the university throughout the plan and beyond. In its first year, […]
DataBytes: Data Literacy 2025 and Beyond
Register for the Event About Veronica Blackburn Veronica Blackburn is a seasoned leader in learning and development, with a rich background in enhancing data science education across higher education, government, and private sectors. As the Director of Learning at Elder Research, Veronica blends adult education best practices and complex analytics into practical teaching strategies. She […]