You Can Lead a Horse to Water...Changing the Data Science Culture for Veterinary Scientists
summary
Edinburgh's vet school chronicles ten years of embedding practical data skills: formal R teaching in undergrad and postgrad curricula, a data methods club that runs successful drop-in "protected analysis" sessions, and a Shiny app for sharing QA workflows. Key results: workshops and protected analysis "parties" increase investigators' ability to troubleshoot, but staff churn and lack of funded time undermine sustainability; student satisfaction dips when R is forced into overloaded courses. Emphasis on reproducibility, R Markdown, extensive documentation and sharable GitHub resources.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:51Vet school teaching changes
- 6:27Culture shifts and data club
- 9:17Operational practice with data
- 12:46Barriers in higher education
- 14:11Summary and management support
- 14:36Q&A
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