Called 'Data Enchanted: Transforming Numbers Into Knowledge,' the workshop uses Taylor Swift to teach data analytics. It joins other Swift-themed courses at schools such as Harvard and Stanford.
Called"Data Enchanted: Transforming Numbers Into Knowledge," the workshop uses Taylor Swift to teach data analytics. It joins other Swift-themed courses at schools such as Harvard and Stanford.
Swift makes teaching “really easy. She has this universal appeal, especially among this segment of the population that’s underrepresented in economics,” said Bender. “A lot of women might think coding or econ isn’t for them and this says, ‘Hey, you can do this too.’”to fund the workshop after noticing students in her econometrics class struggled to organize and interpret large data sets.
Junior international business major Katarina Rodriguez Thomas agreed. The workshop has made her more confident applying for economics internships or research positions. Learning about Swift was just a bonus, Aucker and Rodriguez Thomas said. Both would take other Swift-themed classes if they came up.
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