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6 responses to “Data Science Colleges by US State”

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   samueledeh

   July 16, 2015

   Looks like there is this also http://datasciencedegree.wisconsin.edu/

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   Chester Parrott (@ParrottSquawk)

   July 17, 2015

   A few notes. Instead of quantity, you should do some quality metrics as well. E.g. look at the school or college that the degree resides in for each university; compile rankings for that college and then do a weighted evaluation of each degree. The assumption is that a highly ranked computer science data-science program might be somewhat better than a lower ranked CS program. The other thing is that not all DS programs reside in the CS program, some are in business, some are in mathematics, some in health/biology, etc.

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      Chester Parrott (@ParrottSquawk)

      July 17, 2015

      Also, provide a key for for the map; you state “(dark red is better, black is bad)” but what about orange and yellow? 🙂 If this is a heat map (which I assume it is), just post the key as well so we can see the degrees, as I would assume that black is only marginally worse than dark red with yellow being the worst.

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         Chester Parrott (@ParrottSquawk)

         July 17, 2015

         Yellow being the best, rather. (see how confused I get? 😉

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         Ryan Swanstrom

         July 17, 2015

         Chester,
         That is my mistake. I definitely should have included a key.

         Here is what the colors represent:

         dark red is best, followed by orange, followed by yellow, and finally black is for states with no data science programs

         If I get some time this weekend, I will put a key on the map.

         Thanks for this catch,
         Ryan

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      Ryan Swanstrom

      July 17, 2015

      Chester,
      These are some great comments. Here is my difficulty with quality. Most of the programs are not old enough to have quality rankings. A ranking of the programs on the list would be very beneficial. That said, colleges have overall rankings and those could be used. Anyhow, quality would be a great idea, but I just did not choose to use it.

      Thanks,
      Ryan

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