Universities Need a Data Science Rethink

Statistics professor Jennifer Lewis Priestley, director of the Center for Statistics and Analytical Services at Kennesaw State University (KSU), has a $64,000 question for you: "Does the rise of data science necessitate a change in the way we teach?"

As you take time to ponder an answer, know that you’re doing so along with some of the best and brightest minds in analytics-related education today. This is a question Priestley says she gets asked a lot as a thought leader, and one that she intends to pose to a panel of her colleagues at next week’s SAS Analytics 2013 conference in Orlando.

Beth Schultz, Editor in Chief

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