Data Science Meets Education: Interviews with the EVAAS’ ETL Team

What would it be like to work with educational data after graduation? This question is what initially piqued my curiosity about EVAAS. The Educational Visualization and Analytics Solution (EVAAS) team at SAS is devoted to using data to help education professionals optimize students’ success. The software they develop can be Continue reading Data Science Meets Education: Interviews with the EVAAS’ ETL Team

Learning SAS With Baseball Data, Where Process > Results

Last Monday marked the beginning of the “bootcamp” portion of the MSA program. Aside from two communications classes and preparing for a group presentation, the first week of bootcamp mainly consisted of learning and applying statistical concepts and the SAS programming language. As a member of the orange summer cohort, Continue reading Learning SAS With Baseball Data, Where Process > Results

Datalines: An Interview with Polly Mitchell-Guthrie

“When you have a skill and ability to do things with data that most of your stakeholders are not going to understand, it gives you a significant responsibility to make sure that you do so in a way that is ethical.” -Polly Mitchell-Guthrie Charlie: Please provide an overview of your Continue reading Datalines: An Interview with Polly Mitchell-Guthrie