PITTSBURGH DATAWORKS

Pittsburgh DataWorks is a nonprofit organization that was formed by software scientists from IBM, Oracle, Teradata, and Iqvia and faculty from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the joint Pitt-CMU Supercomputer Center to work together to develop and run the Pittsburgh Data Jam to inspire high school youth in Pittsburgh to enter the field of big data science. The central goal was to familiarize Pittsburgh youth with the field of big data science and make them more aware ... of the role of big data in their everyday lives. As Pittsburgh is home to many companies and businesses that rely heavily on big data and are helping shape the future using big data, the underlying concept was to build a pipeline of young people in Pittsburgh interested in and trained to participate in the big data science of the future. Pittsburgh DataWorks started running the Pittsburgh Data Jam for teams from local high schools in the 2013-2014 school year and it has been held annually.More