Tufts Data Science Landscape Report

October 2023

A review of the data science community at Tufts with strategic recommendations

Over the course of nine months I interviewed upwards of 40 faculty and staff across the university, trying to establish a picture of what “data science” (that slipperiest of terms) looked like at Tufts. My report, which you can find here outlined both the current state of data science ecosystem and synthesized recommendations from the interviewees about how it could be improved.

Topics

  • Interview Study
  • Collaboration in Science
  • Organization Strategy

Technologies Used

  • NetworkX
  • Matplotlib

Challenges & Learnings

This project gave me a whole new perspective on how the organism of a research university operates.