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Available now:
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Biology
- College Physics
- Concepts of Biology
- Introduction to Sociology
- Introductory Statistics
Coming soon:
- Chemistry
- Precalculus
- Principles of Economics
- Principles of Macroeconomics
- Principles of Microeconomics
- Psychology
- U.S. History
Check to see if I missed any present or forthcoming texts on data science. No, I didn’t see any either.
I looked at the Introduction to Sociology, which has a chapter on research methods, but no opportunity for students to experience data methods. Such as Statwing’s coverage of the General Social Survey (GSS), which I covered in Social Science Dataset Prize!
Data science should not be an aside or extra course any more than language literacy is a requirement for an education.
Consider writing or suggesting edits to subject textbooks to incorporate data science. Solely data science books will be necessary as well, just like there are advanced courses in English Literature.
Let’s not graduate digital illiterates. For their sake and ours.
I first saw this in a tweet by Michael Peter Edson.