From Classroom to Corporate: The Data Mine’s Impact on Data Science and Industry Collaboration

Music City Center 

The Data Mine, currently in its seventh year, enables more than 2000 interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate students with hands-on experience in data science. Based on the principles of learning by doing, teamwork, and real-world data science, this model is used by learners at more than 60 colleges annually. Additionally, The Data Mine enables approximately 100 projects with Corporate Partners across many types of domains, including aerospace, agriculture, manufacturing, pharmaceutical science, etc. This model has proven to be a very effective method for colleges and companies to quickly and easily build relationships that create genuine value for partners and students alike. The newest Data Mine location in Indianapolis is a successful example of this model to rapidly scale and return a strong institutional investment. This session will briefly explain why The Data Mine has become pervasive as a model for data science research across institutions of varying profiles. A case study of the past year launch of Indianapolis will be included.

industry-university partnerships

experiential learning

data science

mentoring

industry-student collaboration

student development 

Section on Statistics and Data Science Education