Data Science: What is it? And what about education?

Watercolor by Ligia Koppert, Art Exhibit at Sophia Wanamaker Gallery

at Centro Cultural, San José, Costa Rica

Photo by Jonathan Acuña

Data Science:

What is it? And what about education?

By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.

School of English

Faculty of Social Sciences

Universidad Latina de Costa Rica

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Post 326 / DS Log 01

In the Era of Data Science (DS), education can be tremendously influenced by the deluge of data that can be obtained in and through institution’s data base(s). As a neophyte starting to explore the domains of DS and after creating the infographic below, I have more questions than answers I want to share with my readers now:

1) How can student behavior be monitored and understood when facing data being extracted from a database?

2) What kind of behavioral model can be hypothesized and validated through data derived from the database or other external sources?

3) What type of trends or insights can be identified that can help the academic administration and the educators formatively coach learners toward success?

4) What sort of story can be told regarding the institution when trends and insights are made visible?

5) What methods and tools can be utilized to positively impact the business and the learning of students?

Click here to visualize infographic in Google Drive.

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Though I don’t really have an answer to all these questions, I wanted to share my concerns to help us all become aware of the potential that is hiding behind the tons of bytes of information that a school or an education institution may have in its database(s).

If anyone gets to find a nice way to answer all my questions (concerns), please write back to include them over here.