To kick off the LEADS-4-NDP summer fellowship, LEADS fellows participated in a 3-day intensive data science bootcamp at Drexel University from June 7th-9th, guided with lectures from Drexel University Information Science faculty.
Topics ranged from data science processes; an introduction to crunching data with R, SQL, NOSQL, and NewSQL; linked data at OCLC; metadata quality and integration; data pre-processing techniques with R; data visualization and visual analytics; data mining and machine learning methods, working with Hadoop and Spark; text processing and natural language processing; as well as automated data analysis tools.
Each LEADS fellow is partnered with a remote fellowship library site, where they will be working with mentors on site-specific data science projects over the next 10 weeks.