Should we all be teaching “Intro to Data Science” instead of “Intro to Databases”?
Summary: Advocates reframing database fundamentals as core data-science pedagogy, not a legacy intro. Proposes teaching relational algebra, transactions, and schemas alongside linear algebra, and treating data management at scale as central to the data scientist's toolbox. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Bill Howe (University of Washington)
- 2. Michael J. Franklin (University of California Berkeley)
- 3. Juliana Freire (New York University)
- 4. James Frew (University of California Santa Barbara)
- 5. Tim Kraska (Brown University)
- 6. Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{howe_sigmod14,
title = {{Should we all be teaching “Intro to Data Science” instead of “Intro to Databases”?}},
author = {Howe, Bill and Franklin, Michael J. and Freire, Juliana and Frew, James and Kraska, Tim and Ramakrishnan, Raghu},
series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2588555.2600092},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2600092},
year = {2014}
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