The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (or BIDS) was founded as part of a high-profile, multi-university initiative funded by the Moore and Sloan Foundations, collectively known as the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments (or MSDSE), with the mission of creating ``institutional change'' around data science in academia. I will discuss some of the lessons learned in terms of promoting data science education/training, reproducible and open science, software/tools, and careers. The end result of the initiative at UCB is a new Division of Data Science, a cross-campus group in which designed such that no single department, college, or school will have a controlling stake in data science.

Prof. Lauren Ponisio