Data Science is emerging as the big container for eScience, eResearch, and other curriculum categories pertaining to large scale data management and analysis. Information Nation contains a whole chapter on this movement (Chapter 11 to be precise). Data Science spans the chain that starts when data are created from sensors or business transactions, through data mining, and into long term curation and archiving.
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A new educational focus is emerging in some institutions of higher education. These schools are taking an interdisciplinary approach to educating tomorrow’s information professionals, by mixing together science, technology, social science, and design. These new programs are beginning to educate students in these new professions – not as programmers or coders or software developers, but as professional analysts, architects, and creators of our planet’s critical information infrastructure.
