Baltimore Community Data Science

Welcome to the course website for Baltimore Community Data Science (PH140.840)!

About

This course was developed in partnership with SOURCE, the community engagement and service-learning center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health, which is focused on community engagement that involves:
Social Change / Authentic Relationships / Redistributing Power

Logistics

This course will be taught the 3rd and 4th terms of this academic year (2021-2022) as a special topics course.

Class will be on Zoom but with an optional location at the school of public health (W3031) for students to work together.

Most communications will be through Slack. A link to join the Slack workspace will be emailed to students.

Class sessions will be Friday 1:30- 3:00 PM EST.

Main Goal

This course is focused on helping students learn how to apply their data science knowledge in non-academic settings. Students will reflect on their role as a statistician in society. They will learn more about being mindful and ethical practitioners of data science techniques to advocate for social change. Students will partner with community-based organizations (CBOs) in Baltimore to work on a data science related goal.

Students will focus on developing:

• critical service learning skills
• data science skills
• professional skills

Students will work in teams with a CBO to:

• develop data science products (such as a dashboard, data analysis, series of visualizations, etc.)
• develop training material for CBO users to use and implement the products
• develop sustainability / maintenance plans for CBOs to continue with the data science product in the future and how they can continue to use more data science methods more generally

“Working with community-based organizations in Baltimore to support data science related goals”