Harnessing the Data Revolution to Enhance Diversity Symposium
Data science techniques have revolutionized many scientific disciplines, enabling new insight and discoveries. This Symposium will explore the intersection of data science and diversity with a goal of enhancing diversity and inclusion. To achieve this, multiple communities will be brought together — from data scientists, to industry leaders, to academics working across disciplines — who are interested in laying the groundwork for a future in which big data and artificial intelligence are utilized to achieve equity.
Speakers from across the U.S. will discuss issues ranging from quantifying and contextualizing diversity-related issues to examining approaches that have and haven’t worked. Through this Symposium, the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences — in partnership with Penn State’s Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity and the Center for Social Data Analytics — aims to spur new collaborations and identify cutting-edge approaches that can enhance diversity at Penn State and in higher education across the country.
Symposium themes
The Symposium will include ten short talks around the following themes:
- Can we agree on the goal?
- Quantifying the challenge
- Contextualizing the challenge
- Analyzing approaches that didn’t work
- Approaches that can work