index.Rmd

---
title: "**Baltimore Community Data Science**"
output:
  html_document
---

```{r setup, echo = FALSE, message = FALSE}
library(config)

knitr::opts_chunk$set(warning = FALSE, message = FALSE)
```

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### **About**

`r config::get("course_name_long")` was developed in partnership with [SOURCE](https://source.jhu.edu/) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their mission focuses on **social change**, **authentic relationships**, and **redistributing power**.

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### **Logistics**

- Class sessions are `r config::get("terms")` (`r config::get("acad_year")`) `r config::get("course_time")`
- **Zoom** will be used for classes.
- **Slack** will be used for communication.
- Please refer to the [Syllabus](syllabus.html) for more details

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### **Course Goals**

In this course, students partner with [community-based organizations (CBOs)](https://source.jhu.edu/about/partner-organizations) in Baltimore to work on a data science related goal. CBOs work with youths, advocate for resource equity, and meet other needs within their communities. Students will:

- Apply their data science knowledge in non-academic settings
- **Reflect on their role** as a statistician in society
- Learn more about being **mindful and ethical** practitioners of data science techniques **to advocate for social change**
- Develop critical service-learning, data science, and professional skills
- Develop **data science product(s)** such as a dashboard, data analysis, series of visualizations, etc.
- Create **training material** to help CBOs use and implement the product(s)
- Design **sustainability / maintenance plans** for CBOs to continue using the product(s) long-term

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```{r, fig.align='center', fig.alt= "BCDC logo", echo = FALSE, out.width= "25%"}
knitr::include_graphics("resources/images/BCDS.png")
```
<div class = "center">
"Working with community-based organizations in Baltimore to support data science related goals"  
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