Earlier in the semester, the Unit for Data Science and Analytics at the ASU Library promoted Kerri Rittschof to director. She has plans to improve the unit and make data science more accessible to everyone at ASU, no matter what they study.
Rittschof started at the unit in as a program manager to encourage student engagement. Now, as the director, that remains her primary goal.
“(I’m) really focusing on ensuring, engaging and seeing those lightbulbs go off for students … having those a-ha moments with students that they can use data science in whatever field they’re in,” she said.
Data science refers to a wide array of tools and techniques for analyzing large amounts of data, usually using coding, statistics or mathematics. It is a tool all researchers, even those unfamiliar with computer science, can use.
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