Lee Price, State Director, Office of Apprenticeship, U.S. Department of Labor, presents Executive Director Bill Yoder¬†the Certificate of Registration of Apprenticeship Program for ACDS. WE ARE PLEASED to announce that the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences has received the Certificate of Registration of Apprenticeship Program from The United States Department of Labor – Office of Apprenticeship. […]
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WHEN YOU READ Jerry Adams’ fiery call to arms in this issue of the newsletter, you’ll see that ACDS has strong statewide support for our ambitious long-range mission—and believe me, we’re going to need every bit of it! So it is a great source of both comfort and pride to me that our closest and
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RETHINKING THE DATA SCIENCE DEGREEThe U.A. system retools to teach real-world innovationKarl D. Schubert, Ph.D Research Professor and Director of Innovation and Data Science InitiativesCollege of Engineering and the Sam M. Walton College of BusinessUniversity of Arkansas THIS STORY BEGINS about a decade ago, when I was invited to participate on the College of Engineering
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Who knew that statisticians were having all this fun? TWO STATISTICIANS WERE traveling in an airplane from LA to New York. About an hour into the flight, the pilot announced that they had lost an engine, but don’t worry, there are three left. However, instead of five hours it would take seven hours to get
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SHANNON JONES IS from White Hall, Arkansas. She taught third grade, sixth grade, and middle school, in both public and private schools, over about a dozen years. But then, as she says, “Life threw me a curve ball.” It came in the form of two of her family members getting sick, so Shannon left her
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