About the dsTRAIn
The purpose of the Data Science TRAIn Lab is to expose Macalester undergraduate students to the interdisciplinary field of Data Science by encouraging students to:
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(T)ry
Try new data science and machine learning techniques on the datasets and questions of interest to them
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(R)ead
Read at least one paper in data science and machine learning each week
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(A)sk
Ask questions about data science and machine learning as well as questions about data from a variety of domains
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(In)corporate
Incorporate a variety of expertise to ask interesting questions using data science and machine learning techniques, and to incorporate lab experiences into the broader Macalester education and experiences
The dsTRAIn lab took its final trip at Macalester College in Spring 2016. The Principal Investigator for the dsTRAIn lab was Katherine M. Kinnaird, of the MSCS Department at Macalester College