ESU to Host Data Visualization Summer Institute

Posted by: Elizabeth Richardson on March 29, 2019, No Comments

East Stroudsburg University will host the ESU Data Visualization Summer Institute. The four day intensive learning experience, set for June 24 – 27, will introduce college and high school students as well as high school math teachers to the general techniques for data visualization using the programing software R.

Data science is the study of large sets of data, using computers to look for patterns, trends, and correlations. “One of the best ways to explore and try to understand a large data set is with visualization,” said Xuemao Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics. “Placing numbers into a visual place can let your brain find the underlying patterns.”

The Summer Institute will be taught by Dr. Zhang, Jonathan Keiter, Ph.D., assistant professor of

mathematics, and Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics along

with a teaching assistant. They will teach participants the basic R language syntax, data import,

data tidying, basic plotting and advanced data visualization skills through lectures and computing labs with hands-on case studies.

Registration for the ESU Data Visualization Summer Institute is open through June 7 and free to all participants. Funding is provided by an ESU Faculty Development and Research Major Grant. For more information and to register visit esu.edu/data-visualization.