COMMUNITY PORTAL A STEP TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY First Champions Conf., Southampton, 13-14 July 2016 Andrea Manieri, Giulia Patucca, Carlo Riccucci, Mattia Dallago, Alessandro Pollini, Pierpaolo Petriccione – Engineering Ing. Inf. SpA Kim Hee, Roberto Zicari, Karsten Thorsten – Goethe University

Topics

• Sustaining the Data Science Community • The WHO and WHY in the Community Portal

• Opportunities for Universities • Next Steps

Sustaining the Data Science Community

The WHO and WHY of Community Portal • EDISON CSA is bridging Practitioners, Entrepreneurs and

Educators in Data Science

• Each of them are producer and consumer of value items

•  The Community Portal help creating interactions among them in a not-constrained manner

Establishing an on-line presence

See mock-up at http://mattiadallago.com/edison

What users want: Practitioners

Marco, 34, Post-Doc

I want to certify my Data Science competences

Luca, 42, Data Scientist

I want to improve my knowledge I want to practise and exercise I want to earn by consulting

Riccardo, 24, Student

I want to learn as Data Scientist I want to practise and exercise

Chris, 38, Librarian

I want to prectice and exercise I want to fine tune/ Specialize I want to meet other Librarians

Celia, 30, Researcher

I want to improve my knowledge I want to practise and exercise

What users want: Entrepreneurs

Renato, 43, CEO

1.  I want to educate my team

2.  I want to hire a data scientist

3.  I want to carry out a project/Task

Franco, 43, Community Manager

1.  I want to build a data science team

What users want: Educators

Monica, 52, Professor

1.  I want to create a Data Science course

2.  I want to meet Enterprise education requirements And you?

What users want: One-stop-shop

Services for Practitioners •  To access to Body of Knowledge and other DS material •  To recommend for creating personal learning experience

paths toward a selected profile •  To access to certification schema and training centers for

the recognition of expertise and competence •  To access to Virtual Labs for practicing and experimenting •  To promote themselves as consultant or participating into

industry challenges

Assess your Competences

Professional profile Selection and Assessement

Benchmark Result

Skill Tree (overview of learning path)

Training Program (learning path)

Recommendation system

36+ Learning Outcomes (LO’s)

36 Competences CF-DS v07 DS-BoK Knowledge Areas Learning Units

Based on CF-DS, DS-BoK and MC-DS, the relationship between Learning outcomes and others (Competence, Courses, Knowledge areas) are specified.

1. Learning outcomes conversion (Ref.) 2. Apply distance metrics to measure similarity

6 Competence Groups 6 Knowledge Area Groups DS-BoK v02

19 Professions

5 Profession Groups

MC-DS v01

DSP v01

Acad. Disciplines Classif (CCS2012 & others)

DS-BoK v02

Services for Entrepreneurs •  To access to Body of Knowledge •  To recommend for identify profiles and teams •  To promote positions, intership, grants and other working

opportunities •  To access to Virtual Labs and course to let team to

practicing and experimenting •  To launch challenges within the Community

Services for Educators •  To give high visibility to your courses and events

promoted by your University •  To direct link your courses or programs with students/

practitioners needs and paths •  To learn how to create a Data Science course suitable for

a scientific domain or industry market •  To get support to set-up attractive courses for new

generations of students •  To use Virtual labs facility to improve your course efficacy

• … is anything missing?

Offering for Educators Free (no cost, registration required, no technical support)

Freemium (pay-as-you-get, registration required, limited technical support)

Premium (annual fee + PaYg, registration and NBD technical support)

Promote your events ü ü ü Make your courses reachable ü ü ü Logo and Institute information û ü ü Access relevant information û ü ü Consultancy to support course creation û û ü Massive upload of existing course references

û û ü

Virtual Labs for practice in courses û ü

Be the first to join! • One year (whole 2017) fees drop-out (thanks to EC

funding) for PREMIUM •  Then only 50% of discount for one year more.

• Minimal fee + PaYg •  Pay only on subscriptions to your courses generated by the portal. •  Pay only when Vlabs are actually used

• Monthly report of traffic and contacts generated by the Community Portal

•  Technical support for massive content upload • High visibility in the EDISON speeches and

communication

Next Steps •  To sign the Collaboration agreement

•  doesn’t bind you for any commercial agreement (yet)

•  To identify a contact person for content sharing and technical agreements

•  To show you up in the Community Portal as far from Jan 2017

•  8 months more to decide before get into any commercial agreement

Take aways • Data Science Pro as the (on-line) home of DS

• Practitioners, Entepreneurs and Educators all sharing on the same platform

• Champions are ambassadors among other educators

• Champions are the glue needed between Practitioners and Entrepreneurs