This year I am moving to paper-based knowledge checks at the beginning of lectures to act as an accountability mechanism and for formative assessment of pre-lecture video watching and readings. #datascience #education #LLMs #AI
Tiffany Timbers
@tiffanytimbers.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Teaching in Statistics, Master of Data Science program Instructor, UBC, Vancouver, Canada | she/her
One of the best papers I have read recently about teaching programming/coding in the AI era. Great arguments and practical advice. Programmers Aren’t Obsolete yet: A Syllabus for Teaching CS Students to Responsibly Use Large Language Models for Code Generation: www.scitepress.org/Papers/2025/...
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Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
In case you missed it last week, @minecr.bsky.social any my paper on "Ten simple rules for teaching data science" is now out in @plos.org Computational Biology: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
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BREAKING The R Core Team just awarded the prestigious Rousseuw Prize in statistics, stats equivalent of Nobel Prize 🏆 🏆🏆🏆 #rstats A team effort over many years suitably recognized
In case you missed it last week, @minecr.bsky.social any my paper on "Ten simple rules for teaching data science" is now out in @plos.org Computational Biology: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
journals.plos.org
Our open introductory data science textbooks are reaching further across the globe each year! Exciting to see the data! Links to books: - datasciencebook.ca - python.datasciencebook.ca
Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
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Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
journals.plos.org
From @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social & @minecr.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for teaching data science | #Education #Bioinformatics #DataScience #PLOSCBTSR CC/ @carpentries.carpentries.org | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
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The Carpentries in collaboration with AI Carpentry will host the first set of discussions in a series of 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 + 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 on 18 June, at 12:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. Register below: Session 1: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev... Session 2: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev...
Link to slides from my talk at the 2026 SSC annual meeting yesterday. Talk title: "OERs in action: practical strategies for inclusive and recognized teaching innovation." docs.google.com/presentation...
ssc-OERs-in-Action-Practical-Strategies-for-Inclusive-and-Recognized-Teaching-Innovation
OERs in action: practical strategies for inclusive and recognized teaching innovation. Tiffany Timbers, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Teaching, Dept. of Statistics
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Link to slides from my talk at the 2026 SSC annual meeting yesterday. Talk title: "OERs in action: practical strategies for inclusive and recognized teaching innovation." docs.google.com/presentation...
ssc-OERs-in-Action-Practical-Strategies-for-Inclusive-and-Recognized-Teaching-Innovation
OERs in action: practical strategies for inclusive and recognized teaching innovation. Tiffany Timbers, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Teaching, Dept. of Statistics
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Less than one week before the survey closes!!!
Tiffany Timbers@tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur survey closes in just 2 weeks!!! 🏁 Calling folks working in a #DataScience (or related) role 📣 – we want you to fill out our survey aiming to understand if and how practicing data scientists use and integrate #LLMs 🤖 into their data science tasks. www.linkedin.com/posts/tiffan...
Our survey closes in just 2 weeks!!! 🏁 Calling folks working in a #DataScience (or related) role 📣 – we want you to fill out our survey aiming to understand if and how practicing data scientists use and integrate #LLMs 🤖 into their data science tasks. www.linkedin.com/posts/tiffan...
Only 37 days until the survey closes! Data scientists, we need your help! #LLM #DataScience
Tiffany Timbers@tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 7mo agoCalling folks working in a #DataScience (or related) role 📣 – we want you to fill out our survey aiming to understand if and how practicing data scientists use and integrate #LLMs 🤖 into their data science tasks. www.linkedin.com/posts/tiffan...
Only 37 days until the survey closes! Data scientists, we need your help! #LLM #DataScience
Tiffany Timbers@tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 7mo agoCalling folks working in a #DataScience (or related) role 📣 – we want you to fill out our survey aiming to understand if and how practicing data scientists use and integrate #LLMs 🤖 into their data science tasks. www.linkedin.com/posts/tiffan...
@pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social how do I get my child's birthday announced at the game tomorrow?
Calling folks working in a #DataScience (or related) role 📣 – we want you to fill out our survey aiming to understand if and how practicing data scientists use and integrate #LLMs 🤖 into their data science tasks. www.linkedin.com/posts/tiffan...
Calling folks working in a #DataScience (or related) role 📣 – we want you to fill out our survey aiming to understand if and how practicing data scientists use and integrate #LLMs 🤖 into their data science tasks. www.linkedin.com/posts/tiffan...
"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874 A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
Teaching data science presents unique challenges and opportunities that cannot be fully addressed by simply borrowing pedagogical strategies from its parent disciplines of statistics and computer scie...
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Calling folks working in a #DataScience (or related) role 📣 – we want you to fill out our survey aiming to understand if and how practicing data scientists use and integrate #LLMs 🤖 into their data science tasks. www.linkedin.com/posts/tiffan...
Ana Elisa Lopez, @rohanalexander.bsky.social and my paper, "Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education" is now available (the "Just Accepted" version) from Harvard Data Science Review: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/xv4hxs7u...
Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education
Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu
Ana Elisa Lopez, @rohanalexander.bsky.social and my paper, "Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education" is now available (the "Just Accepted" version) from Harvard Data Science Review: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/xv4hxs7u...
Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education
Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu
Join us on Oct 15 for an education leadership seminar featuring guest speaker Chelsea Uggenti, Assistant Prof. of teaching at the University of Waterloo. 🗣️Talk title: Discipline-Specific TA Training: A Scalable Model for Departments 🕐 1 - 2 PM 📍 ESB 4192 & Online Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/ydutyeub
What are kids books that introduce statistical thinking? I'm thinking ones aimed at > 5-6 year olds. So not Bayesian Stats for babies type books.
What are kids books that introduce statistical thinking? I'm thinking ones aimed at > 5-6 year olds. So not Bayesian Stats for babies type books.
@vancouverrisefc.bsky.social - the UBC Master of Data Science program has opened its called for data science capstone project proposals, we'd love to support women's sports here in Vancouver and work with you! We've worked with the @whitecapsfc.bsky.social in the past and its been fantastic.
The call for UBC Master of Data Science capstone project proposals is open 📢 - Soft deadline is Oct 15th (you get feedback) - Hard deadline is Nov 30 Checkout our about link for more info and links to submit: ubc-mds.github.io/capstone/abo...