Data humanities class wins NSF grant
Support aims to stymie ‘weapons of math destruction’ by improving course that introduces students to data science in a way that incorporates humanities’ strengths
A new humanities course on how to make sense of data and apply it to real-world problems has just been awarded $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the organization announced in late August.
The grant, which was awarded to Eric Vance, associate professor of applied math, and David Glimp, associate professor of English, will be used to develop and study the efficacy of their new course, Inclusive Interdisciplinary Data