If ever there were a time that data vernacular like “dashboards” and “p-values” entered the mainstream, it was the pandemic, as citizens tried to make sense of the new world they came into nearly …
Why most “coding for spreadsheet users” training fails
Excel is arguably the world's largest coding community, with 750 million users worldwide. Many of us, myself included, get introduced to the data world from Excel. But the thing is... Excel is not …
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Building the data academy: Identifying students
Not everyone in your organization wants or even needs to be a machine learning engineer, but they still have a role in how your organization works with data. That's the of the point of the data …
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Building the data academy: assessing candidate skills
Analytics is a rapidly evolving field of high business value, so your organization needs a robust up-skilling strate …
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Teaching coding: What is a Parsons Problem?
Do you play word games like crosswords or word searches? Experts say these strengthen the brain because they make you think from unique angles about how words and letters are associated. Turns out …
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Building your data academy: Presentation and slides
In September 2019, McKinsey called for the rise of the in-house “analytics academy” to up-skill employees’ data literacy and prepare organizations for the changes from artificial intelligence and …
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