MVESC Selected to Work with University of Chicago’s Data Science Program

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – One local organization was selected to help students learn and teachers teach nationwide.

Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center is collaborating with the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship. A summer program designed to train data scientists to work on projects with social impact.

“The university of Chicago wants big data to train their graduate students on. They don’t want it to be just an academic thing, they want where they are getting some real live data, messy data they have to clean it up and more importantly they want that data. Once they are able to package it the way that says something about our kids they want us to do something with it,” said Mike Fuller, Director, Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center.

Fuller said the University wants the data to help MVESC to develop the data to help determine which kids are at the greatest risk.

“When the data models are developed we’ll bring them back for the fall we will share them with our school districts we will work with our districts to use those particular data models to begin looking at kids that we think need some extra help,” said Fuller.

The models will be concluded in August and once the school year starts they will share the information with area leaders.