Industry and Government Partnerships
To tie education, research, and external funding sources together with the opportunity to partner with industry allows the Data Science Institute to develop synergistic projects. Also by developing these relationships, it lends itself to introductions with individuals within the community, within the government, as well as other local agencies. For example:
- There are several individuals and companies that are "using data for good". Finding opportunities and funding to support these initiatives can be accomplished through the Data Science Institute.
- Best opportunities for students and faculty to get real world projects is to partner with companies. The opportunity for classroom projects and/or Kaggle style competitions can be a value added benefit to partnerships.
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Developing advisory or peer groups to help solve real world problems with big data.
Recent Projects (completed and ongoing)
- MTSU Data Science Institute, Hytch explore how ‘big data’ drives social impact technology company
- MTSU Data Science Institute to partner with Second Harvest to solve real world projects.