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Big Ideas in Sports Analytics and Statistical Tools for their Investigation
Benjamin S. Baumer, Gregory J. Matthews, Quang Nguyen
Sports analytics -- broadly defined as the pursuit of improvement in athletic performance through the analysis of data -- has expanded its footprint both in the professional sports…
Data science transfer pathways from associate's to bachelor's programs
Benjamin S. Baumer, Nicholas J. Horton
A substantial fraction of students who complete their college education at a public university in the United States begin their journey at one of the 935 public two-year colleges.…
An educator's perspective of the tidyverse
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Johanna Hardin, Benjamin S. Baumer +3
Computing makes up a large and growing component of data science and statistics courses. Many of those courses, especially when taught by faculty who are statisticians by training,…
Facilitating team-based data science: lessons learned from the DSC-WAV project
Chelsey Legacy, Andrew Zieffler, Benjamin S. Baumer +2
While coursework provides undergraduate data science students with some relevant analytic skills, many are not given the rich experiences with data and computing they need to be su…
Creating optimal conditions for reproducible data analysis in R with 'fertile'
Audrey M. Bertin, Benjamin S. Baumer
The advancement of scientific knowledge increasingly depends on ensuring that data-driven research is reproducible: that two people with the same data obtain the same results. Howe…
Integrating data science ethics into an undergraduate major: A case study
Benjamin S. Baumer, Randi L. Garcia, Albert Y. Kim +2
We present a programmatic approach to incorporating ethics into an undergraduate major in statistical and data sciences. We discuss departmental-level initiatives designed to meet…
Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science
Richard De Veaux, Mahesh Agarwal, Maia Averett +22
The Park City Math Institute (PCMI) 2016 Summer Undergraduate Faculty Program met for the purpose of composing guidelines for undergraduate programs in Data Science. The group cons…
Greater data science at baccalaureate institutions
Amelia McNamara, Nicholas J. Horton, Benjamin S. Baumer
Donoho's JCGS (in press) paper is a spirited call to action for statisticians, who he points out are losing ground in the field of data science by refusing to accept that data scie…
How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport
Michael J. Lopez, Gregory J. Matthews, Benjamin S. Baumer
Statistical applications in sports have long centered on how to best separate signal (e.g. team talent) from random noise. However, most of this work has concentrated on a single s…
We Found the Smallest Non-Autograph
Ben S. Baumer, Yijin Wei, Gary S. Bloom
Suppose that is a simple, vertex-labeled graph and that is a multiset. Then if there exists a one-to-one mapping between the elements of and the vertices of , such t…
A Data Science Course for Undergraduates: Thinking with Data
Ben Baumer
Data science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines elements of mathematics, statistics, computer science, and knowledge in a particular application domain for the pu…
Data Science in Statistics Curricula: Preparing Students to "Think with Data"
Johanna Hardin, Roger Hoerl, Nicholas J. Horton +1
A growing number of students are completing undergraduate degrees in statistics and entering the workforce as data analysts. In these positions, they are expected to understand how…
R Markdown: Integrating A Reproducible Analysis Tool into Introductory Statistics
Ben Baumer, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Andrew Bray +2
Nolan and Temple Lang argue that "the ability to express statistical computations is an essential skill." A key related capacity is the ability to conduct and present data analysis…
Teaching precursors to data science in introductory and second courses in statistics
Nicholas J Horton, Benjamin S Baumer, Hadley Wickham
Statistics students need to develop the capacity to make sense of the staggering amount of information collected in our increasingly data-centered world. Data science is an importa…
openWAR: An Open Source System for Evaluating Overall Player Performance in Major League Baseball
Benjamin S. Baumer, Shane T. Jensen, Gregory J. Matthews
Within baseball analytics, there is substantial interest in comprehensive statistics intended to capture overall player performance. One such measure is Wins Above Replacement (WAR…
Set It and Forget It: Approximating the Set Once Strip Cover Problem
Amotz Bar-Noy, Ben Baumer, Dror Rawitz
We consider the Set Once Strip Cover problem, in which n wireless sensors are deployed over a one-dimensional region. Each sensor has a fixed battery that drains in inverse proport…