Baltimore Community Data Science

About

Baltimore Community Data Science (PH.140.801 + 802) was developed in partnership with SOURCE at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their mission focuses on social change, authentic relationships, and redistributing power.

Logistics

• Class sessions are 1st and 2nd terms (2023-2024) Friday 1:30 - 2:50pm ET
• Zoom will be used for classes.
• Slack will be used for communication.
• Please refer to the Syllabus for more details

Course Goals

In this course, students partner with community-based organizations (CBOs) in Baltimore to work on a data science related goal. CBOs work with youths, advocate for resource equity, and meet other needs within their communities. Students will:

• Apply their data science knowledge in non-academic settings
• Reflect on their role as a statistician in society
• Learn more about being mindful and ethical practitioners of data science techniques to advocate for social change
• Develop critical service-learning, data science, and professional skills
• Develop data science product(s) such as a dashboard, data analysis, series of visualizations, etc.
• Create training material to help CBOs use and implement the product(s)
• Design sustainability / maintenance plans for CBOs to continue using the product(s) long-term

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