Free (and cheap) ways to learn Python
UPDATE May 1, 2019: To keep this all in one place I’ve decided to simply modify/update this post. Over the years students have asked me how they can get more Python skills. In the past …
Tag: Education
An educating week
This has been a week of education for me. Three separate random events reminded me of how much I still have to learn about the world. I was wandering around the interwebs yesterday and came …
Building Bridges
For a couple weeks in May/June I’ll be traveling with a group of students to a small community outside of Cochabamba, Bolivia. We’ll (they’ll?) be building a bridge to make travel to/from the community easier …
Google launches AI education site
On Wednesday Google announced a free set of AI classes hosted on https://ai.google/. It was originally their internal training materials but they thought it would be nice to share. For the last day or so …
Tuition Increases
I’m an avid (read: obsessive) reader of FiveThirtyEight and when I saw this recent article on the reasons why tuition is increasing I was immediately drawn in. I have no idea how many times in the …
A great way to visualize student debt
In my visit to Georgetown this year I’ve been tasked with teaching two six-week MBA electives in the Spring. I’ve been toying with the idea of offering a data visualization course since I think it’s …
Trouble in the ivory tower
I have always been a proponent of the “think” method of teaching. While teaching the skills is necessary, it is definitely not the only reason to go to college. I was lucky enough to be …
We should give people incentives to make more money
Or atleast that’s what some people in Florida think. The idea is to allow universities to charge different amounts for different majors. In general I am a fan of flexibility and when you have limited …