Activity 1.3. Data Science Undergraduate Research Experiences

Alliance faculty and staff offer a year-round ‘Data4SDG’ program of undergraduate research experiences (URE) linking Data Science to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • All students code in R, R Studio, Python and SQL

  • URE are offered during the semester or summer and range from 6 weeks to 3 months

  • HPC and Cloud compute resources are leveraged at TACC and University of Hawaii

  • Research projects may be faculty-, stakeholder- or student-initiated

  • 79 URE completed to date

  • 32 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander traineeships, including indigenous Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamoru, Marshallese students and 17 veteran experiences

Undergraduate research experiences: geographical distribution