Across the University many individuals and groups are developing interesting approaches to data, methods, and workflows, but don’t typically get a chance to share work across departments and units. The second annual U of M Day of Data, held on January 12, 2018, offered those opportunities.
The event connects students, faculty and staff for structured, hands-on learning sessions and open-ended networking opportunities. Topics ranged from introductory data visualization and storytelling, to data modeling and management workflows, to data mining/algorithms and plenty of things in between. The event was co-sponsored by Enterprise Data Management & Reporting (EDMR), Academic Support Resources (ASR), Office of Information Technology (OIT), Libraries, Liberal Arts Technology and Innovation Services (LATIS), and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.
With roughly 150 people in attendance and 25 volunteers, the event was successful. Specifically, there were significantly more students who participated this year. One student shared the following: “The best part about the groups is that there were so many different backgrounds, fields, ability levels, experience. Having a mix of undergrads, graduate students, faculty, and staff was huge. So much to learn from each of those perspectives. I have no doubt that every group of people at the tables learned new things today.”
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