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March 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to our second issue of the DSS newsletter!  We hope you are all doing well.  As a committee, we view our current role as gathering information about existing data-centric efforts across campus and raising awareness about \u201cdata science & society.\u201d  With this in mind, we are excited to share what we are planning and invite you to join.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DataFest 2023 @ Vassar <\/strong>returns fully in-person for the first time since the pandemic: March 31\u2013April 2, 2023.  Everyone is welcome to be involved \u2013 students can register as participants and faculty\/staff can volunteer as consultants or judges.  DataFest has been held at Vassar since 2016 and has been generously sponsored by departments and programs across campus.  For the first time this year, DSS is delighted to join as a sponsor.  To learn more about DataFest, visit https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/<\/a>.  Are you a faculty\/staff interested in volunteering as a consultant or judge?<\/strong>  Contact any of the organizers (Ming An mian@vassar.edu, Simon Hoellerbauer shoellerbauer@vassar.edu, and Lee Kennedy-Shaffer lkennedyshaffer@vassar.edu).  Students can register for free and the deadline is Friday March 3, 2023.  That\u2019s tomorrow, so there’s still time for your students to register!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department\/Program Visits and Listening Sessions.  <\/strong>We are still very much in \u201clistening\u201d mode (or perhaps more appropriately, the data collection phase \ud83d\ude42) and eager to hear from everyone on campus.  We have reached out to all departments and programs to schedule visits.  The goal of these visits is to learn about existing data science activities and efforts, and learn about where DSS can support existing efforts and what folks would like to see from a DSS initiative.  These visits follow our all-faculty listening sessions that we held in February, where we heard from faculty and staff about exciting data-related efforts across campus.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DSS Colloquium Series.  <\/strong>Mark your calendars for the following colloquia scheduled for this semester.  We\u2019ll forward more details as they come:<\/p>\n\n\n\n