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    UC Berkeley spreads the gospel of data science with new college, free curriculum

    by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times May 18, 2023 5 minutes
    The Campanile, Tower and Observation Deck at the University of California Berkeley.

    They comb through troves of legal records and video evidence to challenge wrongful convictions. They organize medical data to help personalize health treatments for better care. They scrutinize school test scores to investigate inequities. Finding safe drinking water is easier thanks to an analysis tool they created.

    UC Berkeley's faculty and students are marshaling the vast power of data science across myriad fields to address tough problems. And now the university is set to accelerate those efforts with a new college, its first in more than 50 years — and is providing free curriculum to help spread the gospel of data science to California community colleges, California State University and institutions across the nation and world.

    As data floods society faster than ever before, demand has surged for specialists who can organize

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