Advanced Data Competency Badge

The intention of this badge is to provide a microcredential to students who have established a consistent curricular and co-curricular engagement with data. In order to guarantee a breadth of experiences with data, the proposed microcredential includes three experiences.

Co-curricular experiences: Students will complete at least 2 unique co-curricular data experiences that have been approved by the Data Nexus committee. These could include:

Data Nexus Sponsored Data Competition
Sports Marketing Case Competition
Data Intensive Designated Research Presentation at SURF or Data Nexus approved presentation at an external conference
Data Intensive Not for Credit Internship or an experience related to an internship that is outside of the expectations listed in the internship syllabus.
Data Nexus approved artistic project submitted to a competition
Center for Organizational Analytics Team Member
Data Nexus Approved Certification Earned
Tutor for an accountability session of STS 1100, STS 2120, or ECO 2300
Complete Citi (IRB) training
Working with the analytics team for student media or Live Oak Communications
Participation in a data project, which is unrelated to the expectations of a course, for a community partner.
Participation in a data project, which is unrelated to the expectations of a course, for a campus partner.
Other experiences approved by Data Nexus

Curricular experiences: Students will successfully complete, with a C or higher, 3 Data Intensive Designated classes from at least two different disciplines.

Applying for the Badge
Go to the application

Here you will submit:

Your list of Data Intensive Courses that you are using towards the badge
Your list of Co-curricular experiences that you are using towards the badge, along with evidence or reference speaking to your completion
A 90 second reflective video which speaks to how your co-curricular and curricular experiences have contributed to your advanced data proficiency related to these SLOs. In this reflection, please point to specific data examples, sample assignments, sample exam problems, sample projects, etc. when reflecting on your proficiency in these SLOs. The student learning outcomes (SLOs) for advanced data competency can be found at here.

At the time of your submission you will asked to sign up and attend a group discussion that will be the final part of your badge application. If you have any questions please contact the Director of Data Nexus at datanexus@elon.edu.