Data Science @ Baylor (overview)

Research Examples

Teaching Examples

Research & Pedagogy Support

• Department of Statistical Science
  • Director of Statistical Consulting Summer/Fall 2020
• Focus: University Library’s Data Research Administrative Team (DRAT)
  • Administers Library’s Data & Digital Scholarship Program

Data Research Administrative Team

Mission

• Provide educational resources to introduce Baylor students, faculty, and staff to the fundamentals of incorporating data into their research. A special emphasis is placed on research data management and software training in the areas of data visualization, text data mining, and data scripting.

Composition

• Members: 4 library faculty, 1 instructional designer, 1 marketing representative
• Teaching Faculty Advisors:
  • Social Sciences (1-year): Lourenco Paz (Economics)
  • Humanities (1-year): Joe Stubenrauch (History)
  • STEM (1-year): Jonathan Cook (Center for Spatial Research)
  • Statistical Sciences (permanent): James Stamey until Consultant hired
• Library Faculty Advisors:
  • Special Libraries (1-year): Laura French (Armstrong Browning Library)
  • Subject Liaison (1-year): Bill Hair (Theology & Philosophy Librarian)

Programs

• Data Scholar Workshop Program

In-Person Guide Example

Online Video Example

• • Awards badges and the status of Baylor Data Scholar
    • Teaching faculty workshops offered by:
      • Brianna Lemmons (SW- Introduction to SPSS)
      • Jonathan Cook (CSR – ArcGIS Desktop: Cholera Outbreak)
      • Karen Lopez-Alonzo (MLC – Text Data Mining for Non-English Materials)
      • John Will (CSR – Machine Learning: Image Identification Using Python)
    • All workshops online component

• Fundamentals of Data Research Fellowship Program

• Fundamentals of Data Research Fellowship Program
  • Intensive summer program
  • 2019 Fellow Highlights
  • 2019, 2020: 5 graduate students, 10 humanities faculty

Additional Library Data & Digital Scholarship Programs (Non-DRAT)

Interactive Displays

• Recent Homiletical Thought
• Baylor Creations
• 2019 FDR Fellows Highlights

University Administrative Support

• School of Music Enrollment Data
  • Mary Sage, McKenna Lalani
  • Support sessions twice per semester over last two years
• Undergraduate Public Health Program Enrollment Data
  • Beth Lanning, Director
  • Support sessions twice+ per semester over last three semesters

Upcoming DRAT Plans

• Ambition: Self-fund Summer Fellowship
  • Fee-based version of Data Scholar Workshops (self-paced), released Spring Break (looking for reviewers in February)
  • Bootcamp for librarians to learn how to offer data & digital scholarship services at their university in January 2021.