31 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 298 2019 Representation and Transformation, (3) Computing with Data, (4) Data Modeling, (5) Data Visualization and Presentation, and (6) Science about Data Science.12 Gartner lists 33 relevant hot topics ranging from crowdsourcing and ethics to machine learning and visualization.13 In most paradigms, the activities of planning for data management, data collection, and making data available (for data science or other purposes) are not included in the definition of data science. However, the lines cannot be clear when choices made during planning, data collection, or data sharing will impact any of Donoho’s six buckets. For example, the availability of data and its discoverability and suitability for data exploration and modeling may rely on tidy data14 and standards-driven metadata APIs. Schutt and O’Neil15 took a data-driven approach to capturing the nature of data science, in other words, asking data scientists what they do in their work, and concluded that (1) data science is a real thing worth teaching, and (2) in industry, that includes not only programming and statistical skills, but also basic data wrangling, driving curiosity, and the ability to communicate effectively. Data Curation Services Soon after NAL began developing services in data curation and preservation, we initiated cooperative agreements with the University of Maryland iSchool. Under these agreements, we have sponsored four master’s of library and information science students to work with us on digital data curation projects and two postdoctoral scholars to assess our readiness for trusted data repository certification and make Schutt and O’Neil took a data-driven approach to capturing the nature of data science, in other words, asking data scientists what they do in their work, and concluded that 1) data science is a real thing worth teaching, and 2) in industry, that includes not only programming and statistical skills, but also basic data wrangling, driving curiosity, and the ability to communicate effectively.
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