{"title":"Shiga University's endeavor to promote human resources development for data science in Japan.","authors":"Takuma Tanaka, Tetsuto Himeno, Kaoru Fueda","doi":"10.1007/s42081-022-00151-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2017, Shiga University established the Faculty of Data Science, which was the first faculty in Japan specializing in data science and statistics. This paper reports the Faculty's historical context, curricula, and collaboration with industry and other universities. The career paths of the graduates and the massive open online courses and textbooks provided by the Faculty of Data Science are also summarized.</p>","PeriodicalId":29911,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science","volume":"5 1","pages":"747-755"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8958343/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42081-022-00151-5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/3/27 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"STATISTICS & PROBABILITY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 2017, Shiga University established the Faculty of Data Science, which was the first faculty in Japan specializing in data science and statistics. This paper reports the Faculty's historical context, curricula, and collaboration with industry and other universities. The career paths of the graduates and the massive open online courses and textbooks provided by the Faculty of Data Science are also summarized.