Outreach:
- Courses: data science (MA799), data mining (MA710), data science (MA402, fall 2015)
- Data lab: graduate and undergraduate students work on data projects to learn new data science tools and methods (biweekly, in progress)
- Seminars for Bentley faculty on use of the cluster (i.e. DART March 17, 2015)
- Collaboration with Bentley faculty:
- Fred Ledley (Director, Center for Integration of Science and Industry): investigate datasets used by the center in order to determine how data science/mining tools can be beneficial to the center (planned)
- Mingfei Li (Program Director, Master of Business Analytics): incorporate data science in the MSBA curriculum (in progress)
- Patrick Scholten (Associate Professor, Economics): determine software tools, available on the HPC, and find data sets beneficial to the department (planned)
- Jay Thibodeau (Professor, Accountancy): design two new courses to integrate data science into the Masters of Accountancy program (planned)
- Jason Wells (Sr Mgr, Instr & Rsrch Technology, ATC): develop training materials for use of the HPC (planned)
- External collaboration:
- AnalyticsWeek: Vishal Kumar and Sachin Bhate, co-founders of AnalyticsWeek, are involved in the planning aspects of Data Space with the goal of integrating Bentley into the Boston technical/meetup/startup community. We expect this to be mutually beneficial primarily by sharing expertise and by increasing Bentley’s visibility in, and contribution to, the data science and analytics community
- Data Visualization in Metrowest Boston Meetup: Bill Shander (organizer, Beehive Media) and David Oury (event organizer, MA) have arranged several meetups on data visualization at Bentley. The next meeetup, presented by the CEO of Plotly, is scheduled for 16 July 2015
- A corporate partnership is now in the initial planning and discussion phase
- Bentley has been accepted as a collaboration partner for the NSF application submitted by Columbia University and Northeastern University for the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub