Royal Statistical Society: Data Science Section

The Data Science Section (DSS) of the Royal Statistical Society was launched (slides available here) in June 2017.

Section Remit

The remit of the Data Science section (DSS) is to be a professional body that represents data scientists in the UK. The DSS will organise meetings for a broad range of attendees and generate outputs that are aimed at:

• Promoting good practice by addressing what good Data Science looks like (with exemplars) and what it does not look like.
• Promoting the statistical aspects of Data Science / reinforcing the statistical framework
• Being a trusted voice on Data Science for employers, including inputting to consultation exercises
• Supporting the Data Science community throughout the UK
• Supporting the pipeline and career development of data scientists and statisticians by elevating skill sets to work in the modern world
• Supporting important emerging topics such as ethics, privacy, algorithmic responsibility and personalization - lifting the quality of the conversation
• Fostering multi-disciplinary connections and the exchanging of ideas

How do we communicate?

• We do substantive work on Github. This includes writing, sharing, commenting on workstream documents.
• We discuss broader issues and coordinate work streams on Slack. For an invite please contact us at datascience [at] rss.org.uk.
• We share ideas and publicise events on Twitter.
• We use LinkedIn as our corporate homepage.
• We use the RSS website page [TBC] to describe the Section and how it is organised, enabling others to navigate to our output.
• We aspire to be self-organised without unnecessary structure and hierarchy but the RSS DSS committee reserves the right to manage the social media to maintain recognised rules of netiquette and RSS Code of Conduct.

What are we up to now?

Following our launch event in June 2017, and the presentation of twelve questions around the industrialisation and professionalisation of data science, we are planning a number of work streams based on addressing some of these questions.

What else is here on github?

Repo	Content
industrialisation	The 12 industrialisation questions. If you want to comment on the industrialisation questions, please raise an issue here.
presentations	Slides from presentations related to the section.
remit	A description of the committee's remit
events	Events and news