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Why applied math must be core to data science courses Sujit John / TNN / Feb 28, 2025, 07:26 IST AA ...
NIC MAP Vision was originally created in March 2021 after National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) acquired VisionLTC, a data analytics platform specializing in the senior ...
We’ve published a new interactive map of the 2024 election that shows results by precinct, the most detailed vote data available. The New York Times is also releasing this data set for others to ...
According to district data, in HISD’s elementary schools, the percentage of students who met expected growth was 56% in reading, 55% in math, and 60% in science. The percentage of middle school ...
California’s math wars are roiling the state’s educational system, with contentious debates over high school curricula. At issue is whether a “data science” course should be available as a ...
Lai Bui, a veteran math teacher at Mills High School in the San Mateo Union High School District, said there’s no justification for treating CourseKata, an introduction to data science course ...
Now UC has retracted that decision, making it much less likely that counselors will recommend data science to our students. Consequently, we’re likely to see a decline in enrollment and retention ...
While data science and statistics courses have been rapidly added to high school options and are welcome additions, these courses cannot replace the foundational math content found in Algebra II. We ...
The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most. They also determined the research questions they’d ask of ...
A debate over data science offerings in high school — and whether the classes should be offered as an alternative to algebra II — has erupted in California.
A relatively unexplored idea is to perform SOM clustering using an r-by-c map instead of a 1-by-k map. When using a two-dimensional map, SOM clustering produces cluster IDs that have a (row, column) ...