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Higher education in a Data Science era
Joos Buijs
Assistant professor Research program manager
EDSA project Data Science Center Eindhoven

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Q1: What skills does industry require?
And is there a difference between
France and the Netherlands?

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Job dashboard

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Job dashboard

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France versus NL (last month)
France (67.930 jobs)
1. computer science
2. database
3. statistics
4. project management
5. finance
6. machine learning
7. big data
8. sql
9. Design
10. data analysis
Netherlands (4.398 jobs)
1. database
2. php
3. java
4. design
5. sql
6. javascript
7. computer science
8. software engineering
9. user interface
10. statistics

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Demand Analysis Results
Importance of skills: How would you rate the
following skills for a data scientist?

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Self-assessment
How proficient are you in the following areas?
(1=very poor; 5=very good)

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Q2: How to educate
And is classical teaching enough?

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Physical versus online
Training methods: Which training delivery methods
would you prefer? (survey)

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Curated data science course overview

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Q3: How to deliver
How do students learn online?

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MOOC: Process Mining in Healthcare
• Process mining explained for the healthcare sector
• Many practical examples, not too technical
• Complements our other 2 process mining MOOCs
• Available on FutureLearn:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/process-mining-healthcare/
• Over 1,200 registered students of which 93 social in run #1

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Learning Analytics

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Learning Analytics

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Learning Analytics

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Behavior analysis

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To summarize
1. What skills does Industry require?
2. How to educate?
3. How to deliver

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European Data Science Academy
www.edsa-project.org:
- Job dashboard
- Curated list of courses

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European Data Science Academy
1. What skills does Industry require?
2. How to educate?
3. How to deliver
Joos Buijs
www.win.tue.nl/~jbuijs/
@joosbuijs
www.linkedin.com/in/joosbuijs

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