Conclusion

In this article, we considered two sets of data in support of the emerging case to adopt Jupyter notebooks as a pedagogical tool for interdisciplinary HSSA education.
The first set of data provided an overview of what educators already bought-in to this case consider feasible at the undergraduate and secondary education stage in the US and UK. From both the Computational Data Practices matrix and supplementary references we discovered example use-cases for Jupyter notebooks to enable novel and progressive syllabus content.
The second set of data helped to flesh out the initial insights from the first as we learned how highly four instructors and one student of some of these pioneering courses rated their Jupyter notebook experiences in that educational context, whether for teaching, learning, or transferable knowledge and skills.
This nascent case ultimately aims to stimulate Jupyter notebook-enabled, computational data-driven interdisciplinarity within undergraduate and secondary school programs, through whatever development pathway possible. Democratizing effective future-ready education to the next generation of citizens today is essential preparation for the society of tomorrow, and should be universally considered a high priority.
Chiin-Rui Tan is the founder and CEO of Rho Zeta AI, an EdTech startup in London, UK, with a mission to democratize opportunities for young people to develop modern computational data literacy. Working primarily with schools, she advises, develops, and delivers pioneering curricula, syllabi, instruction, and tools that introduce students and educators to contemporary scientific computing, data science, open-source Python software, and technology stacks. She has a particular interest in making technical learning accessible to harder-to-reach youth, especially those disengaged with STEM. She was the first Head of Data Science appointed to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office of the British Government, where she built the department's first artificial intelligence, and developed new open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools as per her Cyber & National Security remit. She received a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. An original founding member of the R-Ladies Global open-source community, she is a past Linux Foundation grant recipient who co-led the establishment of this network of R user groups worldwide. Contact her at info@rhozeta.io.