1. Xiao Hu, Sam Chu, J. Stephen Downie, Celina Lee
Data Science as an Emerging Discipline: The Roles of iSchools in the Era of Big Data
Xiao Hu, Sam Chu, J. Stephen Downie, Celina Lee
Faculty of Education
University of Hong Kong
School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois
iConference 2017, Wuhan, China

2. Data Science Data Scientists Information Science
“sexiest job in the 21st century” Harvard Business Review, 2012
“best job of the year” Glassdor, 2016
Information Science
Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom
Organization of information
Metadata
Human computer interaction
Information Ethics,

3. Data Science in iSchools: Now
Data Science Related Teaching and Research Activities in iSchools (Tier 1)
U. S.
Canada
Europe
Asia
Total
Number of institutions 20 1 4 2 27
Graduate programs 9 11
Graduate certificates
Undergrad programs 7 8
Courses (incl. MOOC) 3 5
Research centers or projects 13 19
All regions have data science related research

4. Global Collaborations
Expertise + Demand
Univ. of Hong Kong + Univ. of Illinois
Data Curation Spring Institute (Feb. 2015)
Data-driven Scholarship Autumn Institute (Nov. 2016) ……
Expertise of both institutions, regional demand; the model has been followed by other universities like those in the mainland.

5. Questions / Confusions
Content of the programs
Data curation, data management
Statistics, data analysis
Algorithms, data mining
System design and deployment
Career paths to aim for
Data curator, data scientist, data analyst, data manager,…
Relationship with other related disciplines
Statistics, computer science, (digital) humanities, etc.

6. Comments and Discussions
Welcome suggestions/comments!
Thank You!