Collaboratory

Collaboratory

The Collaboratory program was co-founded by DSI and Columbia Entrepreneurship to support “the development of innovative, interdisciplinary curricula that embeds data or computational science into more traditional domains or the reverse, embeds business, policy, cultural, and ethical topics into the context of a data or computer science curriculum.” By providing seed funding to support transdisciplinary collaboration between data scientists and domain experts the Collaboratory encourages innovative new course designs and jumpstarts data-driven pedagogy. Twenty Collaboratory projects have been launched since the inception of the program. These projects have led to 32 new courses as of Spring 2021, many taught multiple times, and more courses are in development. Faculty involvement spans 12 schools, three institutes, and 26 departments. More than 4,000 students have taken Collaboratory courses, and several Collaboratory courses have been integrated into core curricula.

Columbia data science students visit the offices of Spotify.