[Informatics] Data scientists really love their jobs

[Garth, Lucas A]

Hi Ken

I went through GROK learning’s Web Comp with my Year 10 Digitech students this year and a few students finished two lessons early in the second week of scoring (they went on to achieve a perfect score so they are very capable students who love web design) but when I showed them Bebras examples of previous years they found the thinking processes very different to anything they had done before. They were very reluctant to be entered for this year’s comp (understandable with only a lesson to practice and never seeing these types of problems before maybe).

It further confirms the need for Digitech at Year 7 and 8 (our students at the moment are only offered electives at 9 and 10 until our curriculum review completes next year) in order to teach the problem solving and thinking skills that are not implicitly taught (or explicitly it seems) in other subjects.

In terms of data science – I love the hypothesising and the process from when the data is in a usable fashion to when I’ve tweaked the output to look how I want it.  I gather that makes me normal.

LG

From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Ken Price
Sent: Friday, 21 April 2017 9:34 PM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Informatics] Data scientists really love their jobs

The intellectual satisfaction of doing some of these types of tasks is worth researching. Kids have chances to see if they enjoy creating music, running marathons, acting in plays, performing experiments and drawing pictures, but perhaps this is an area many don't ever experience.

Many of our schools have found that a few kids who do the Bebras computational thinking competition find it very rewarding, and have never encountered this stuff before.

ken

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On 21 Apr 2017, at 1:08 am, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>> wrote:
A report indicates that data scientists are especially happy when building, modelling, mining data or refining algorithms. They are grumpy when cleaning, sorting and tagging data. I get that too when I have to sort out the single socks each week.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/data-scientists-really-love-their-jobs-survey-finds/

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Roland GESTHUIZEN
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

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