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