Data science, statistics, and public management

Readings due before class on Thursday, September 6, 2018

Required

• Ths syllabus and assignments pages for this class
• DJ Patil, "What Makes a Radical and Revolutionary Technology?DJ Patil is the former Chief Data Scientist of the United States under President Obama. He gave this forum address at BYU on February 13, 2018.
  
  
• Stephen Goldsmith, “Next Generation of Public Employees Must Understand Data and Policy”
• Chris Sommerfeld, “The Rise of the Data Scientists”
• Zack Quaintance, “Summit on Data-Smart Government Day Two Shows How Fast the Discipline Has Grown”
• Hadley Wickham, “Data Science: How is it Different To Statistics?”