The project “Women Data Science Leaders in Russia” aims to increase gender diversity and women‘s participation in the Russian data science community by means of developing online courses and video materials that present female role models for female students, in order to change the stereotypes that affect the perception of the data science field.
A phenomenon of citizen science, its features and prospects are the topic of high actuality nowadays. And it seems to be natural, that citizen science and crowdsourcing techniques penetrate to such popular area as data science. This paper considers the questions about teaching data science and the areas, which borrow the techniques from data science. The review of learning outcomes, which may be gained from projects of citizen science, allows to propose educational data expeditions to be adopted into educational courses. Moreover, the paper represents the principles of citizen science as a mean of making a fully open educational project and to validate it as a learning tool.