Oceans of Data

The Oceans of Data Institute (ODI)

is dedicated to transforming education to help people succeed in school, work, and life in a data-intensive world.

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Real World, Real Science:

Using NASA data to explore weather and climate

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Creating Pathways for Big Data Careers

ODI is looking for reviewers of the Profile of the Data Practitioner, which will help Community Colleges develop data/big data career pathways.

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Building Global Interest in Data Literacy

ODI and IBM teamed up for a 3-day workshop, bringing in a panel of experts to discuss data literacy.

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Ocean Tracks College Edition

Web-based visualization and analysis tools to create active learning experiences for students at the undergraduate level.

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EDC Earth Science

A curriculum that explores current and compelling questions using authentic data.

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What's Happening

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Zoom In! Teaching Science with Data will integrate two learning technologies— EDC’s Zoom In and Concord Consortium’s (CODAP) Common Online Data Analysis... Read more

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Read our latest blogs about our work: Ruth Krumansl writes about what ODI has learned about data visualization in her blog, Data Visualization — A Matter of Perception. ODI's Burt Granofsky... Read more

New Data Resources for Educators

Are you looking for resources for teaching with data? ODI has curated a collection of K-16 resources: http://oceansofdata.org/our-work/teacher-resources .Read more

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Projects

Zoom In! Teaching Science with Data

The world we live in is increasingly data-driven.

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Real World, Real Science: Using NASA Data to explore Weather and Climate

This NASA-funded collaboration with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) builds on the success of GMRI’S existing LabVenture! Program to create new learning experiences focused on exploring the relationship between weather and climate.

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Creating Pathways for Big Data Careers

To address the urgent and rapidly growing need for workers proficient in the use of Big Data the Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) of Education Development Center, Inc.

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Building Global Interest in Data Literacy: A Dialogue

ODI and IBM teamed up for a three-day workshop, October 4-6, 2015, which convened a panel of 12 professionals from both data-intensive industries and K-16 education.

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An Occupational Skills Profile for the Big-Data-Enabled Specialist

Professionals in many career fields now find that researching, analyzing and integrating data is essential to their work.

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Ocean Tracks College Edition

Ocean Tracks College Edition (OT-CE) is a three-year research and development project funded by NSF (grant # DUE-1431903), involving a collaboration between EDC and the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Th

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Professional Development to Integrate the Practices of Science and Engineering into Earth & Space Science Education

The Next Generation Science Standards place a strong emphasis on students’ mastery of “practices” of science and engineering.

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The Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP)

Awarded in the fall of 2013 by the National Science Foundation, EDC is working with Concord Consortium and the University of Minnesota on the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) project.

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EarthCube Education End-Users' Workshop

EarthCube is an NSF initiative to develop a national cyberinfrastructure which will give researchers and students easy access to earth data and models in a way that is intended to catalyze an

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Ocean Tracks: Investigating Marine Migrations in a Changing Ocean

Ocean Tracks: Investigating Marine Migrations in a Changing Ocean (Ocean Tracks) is a two-year Phase I research and development project funded by NSF (grant #1222413) that is a collaboration between EDC and Stanford University’s Hopkins M

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Bridging the Gap Between Tabletop Models and the Earth System

This classroom research project seeks to understand more about how teachers teach and students learn using physical models in Earth Science.

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FIRE: Making Meaning from Geoscience Data

This laboratory research project seeks to understand more about how students form inferences and interpretations as they view geoscience data visualizations.

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InTeGrate

InTeGrate is a nationwide effort to transform undergraduate geoscience education in such a way as to increase the flow of individuals with Earth expertise into the employment pipeline and to contribute to solving national grand challenges of envir

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Oceans of Data: What Is Needed to Support Students Learning with Large Scientific Databases?

The practice of science and engineering is being revolutionized by the development of cyberinfrastructures for accessing near real-time and archived observatory data.

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Professional Development to Improve the Spatial Thinking of Earth Science Teachers and Their Students

Spatial thinking involves drawing meaning from the position, shape, orientation, trajectory, or configuration of objects or phenomena.

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Data-Enhanced Investigations for Climate Change Education (DICCE)

With support from the National Science Foundation, EDC is working with SRI International and NASA in the development and piloting of interactive websites for high school classroom climate-change investigations.

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Other Worlds: Other Earths

The Other Worlds: Other Earths project aims to give high school students first-hand experience in gathering, analyzing and interpreting data.

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EDC Earth Science

EDC Earth Science, developed as part of the NSF-funded Foundation Science project at EDC (grant #0439443) and published by

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Featured Resources

Building Global Interest in Data Literacy: A Dialogue-Workshop Report

What does it mean to be data literate in the world of “big data”? What should we be teaching students to better prepare them to participate in today’s workforce and society? What steps need to be taken to develop critical data literacy skills in...

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Visualizing Oceans of Data: Ocean Tracks – A Case Study

In 2013, the Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) released Visualizing Oceans of Data: Educational Interface Design report, which offers a set of guidelines for designing interactive tools to engage students with data. ODI applied these guidelines during...

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EDC Earth Science

What would it take to colonize another world? What can cause Earth’s climate to change? Will another large earthquake happen in California? How do you find oil? EDC Earth Science takes students on an exploration of these questions and others,...

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