1. Math for America
...and how we automated our work
Reed Rosenbluth & Raghav Kedia

2. - Nonprofit organization
- Goal
- Improve mathematics and science
education in U.S. public secondary
schools by building a corps of
outstanding STEM teachers and leaders.
What is MƒA ?

3. Our Tasks
- Data Entry
- Data Review / Clean Up
- Statistical Analysis

4. Data Entry
- Aggregate data about prospect applicants
and nominees into “Recruitment Tracker”
- Mostly manual

5. Data Review
- Excel® formula to cross check the
application progress of each nominee
- Formula to check database for duplicate
nominees or prospect applicants
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(E2,Nominations!$J$2:$AI$1000,26,FALSE)), VLOOKUP(A2,Nominations!$I$2:$AI
$1000,27,FALSE), VLOOKUP(E2,Nominations!$J$2:$AI$1000,26,FALSE))
=COUNTIF($C$2:$C$1000,C20)>1

6. Nominee Dashboard

7. Closest Match

8. Statistical Analysis
- How effective are MƒA’s methods of reaching out
to prospect applicants?
- Methods
- School visits
- Mass emails
- Recommendations
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