Sat 21 Feb 2026 10:40 - 12:00 at Meeting Room 275 - Panel

This panel presents the current effort and status to create recommended curriculum competencies for undergraduate data science programs. The ACM Education Board established and chartered a task force in 2023 to extend the ACM Computing Competencies for Undergraduate Data Science Curricula by producing a multidisciplinary set of competencies for data science with representatives from computing, statistics, and applied mathematics societies. ACM published guidelines in 2021 for delivering appropriate computing competencies in data science programs while acknowledging that computing is one major component of data science, along with mathematics and statistics, along with other components. The ACM Education Board recognized the need to expand on this work and invited participation from numerous statistics and mathematics societies to create a more complete set of guidelines. To that end, the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA), American Statistical Association (ASA), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Mathematical Association of American (MAA), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) joined the ACM to form a joint task force to expand and add other appropriate components to the original report.

Sat 21 Feb

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10:40 - 12:00
10:40
80m
Talk
An Introduction to the Joint Taskforce on Undergraduate Data Science Curriculum
Panels
Paul Leidig Grand Valley State University, Maureen Doyle Northern Kentucky University, Christian Servin El Paso Community College