Education for data professionals: A study of current courses and programs

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 527-529

  Varvel, Virgil E ^a   Bammerlin, Elin J ^a   Palmer, Carole L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

courses; data curation; data management; data science; digital curation; e research; e science; education; expertise; programs

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; E-SCIENCE; TEACHING;

'CURRENT; COURSE; CURRENT DATA; DATA CURATION; DIGITAL CURATION; E-RESEARCH; E-SCIENCES; EXPERTISE; LIS EDUCATIONS; PROGRAM;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857680689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2132176.2132275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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