DATA 311 - Lecture 0 Worksheet

DATA 311 - Lecture 0 Worksheet

Write the names of the students at your table:

  1. Spend a couple minutes doing introducations at your table.

Then, work with your table to answer the following questions. To start with, you do not need to devise a perfect definition - listing associated words and phrases is fine. If you’ve finished that and time allows, try to summarize your answer as a defintion.

  1. What is data science? What do data scientists do?

  2. What is data?

  3. Brainstorm at least 3 interesting questions that (a) you’d like to know the answer to, and (b) you think could be answered with data. Ideally, try to consider questions that can be answered with data that is not impossible for you to acquire.

  4. The world is on fire in various ways and AI is changing everything (for better or worse). What is the role of data science in today’s world? What is the role of data science in the AI-enabled [u,dys]topian future?Note: You don’t need to write an answer for this one (though if you come up with a good one, please share it with the class!)