Data Science Centers at UCB, UW, and NYU

Personally, I think the region that includes math and expertise but not hacking skills should be labelled "A World of Pain" rather than "Traditional Research". Our mission is to help scientists get out of it and into the center of the diagram by teaching them how to write code well (which is the key to writing it faster and being able to re-use it), how to automate repetitive tasks, how to use version control to keep track of what they've done and share it with others, and how to use the web to do more than just upload spreadsheets and download PDFs. If you'd like to help, we're now accepting applications for the March 2014 run of our instructor training course; please mail us about that, or about running a bootcamp where you are.

Congratulations to everyone involved in the proposal—we look forward to wonderful things.