Modern Education in a Post-Modern World

1. Jonathan Dinu Co-Founder, Zipfian Academy jonathan@zipfianacademy.com @clearspandex @ZipfianAcademy Modern Education in a Post-Modern World July 21st, 2014

2. Today • The current (modern) State of Education • Our (post-modern) Methodology • Productionizing the Products (i.e. the industry) • GraphLab in the Classroom • Our School Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

3. Disclaimer: This presentation contains strong opinions that you may or may not agree with. All thoughts are my own. * I love higher education, and am grateful for everything it has given me. And for the tireless hours professors spend to make sure that their students understand. Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

4. Cultural Studies A Short Interlude… Source: https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/rpstephens/2012/09/14/modernism-vs-postmodernism/Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

5. Modernism mod•ern•ism: a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide- scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ModernismQuestions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

6. The Reverend Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_BayesQuestions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

7. Universities Universities are incentivized to produce high quality professors… Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

8. Universities Who do cutting edge research and write (well cited) papers in peer reviewed journals Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

9. Universities And give good grades? Graduation and retention rank 6-year graduation rate Average freshman retention rate Source: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

10. Universities And give good grades? Source: http://www.gradeinﬂation.com/Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

11. Universities Source: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/ To Exceptional students… Student selectivity rank Financial resources rank SAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile Alumni giving rank Freshmen in top 10 percent of high school class Average alumni giving rate Freshmen in top 25 percent of high school class Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

12. Employment Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy But this is at odds with what (many) students want

13. Employment Source: Mckinsey Report (http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/ Education/Education-to-Employment_FINAL.pdf) %ofGraduates 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 Students Employers Schools Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy Entry level Preparedness

14. Employment Source: Kim Polese (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Q0nkRjD80)Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

15. Employment Source: http://www.nerdwallet.com/nerdscholar/grad_surveys/highest-employment-rates University of Massachusetts-Amherst School of Nursing 98% Georgetown University McDonough School of Business 94% Michigan State University College of Nursing 92% Syracuse University School of Architecture 90% University of Massachusetts-Amherst Isenberg School of Management 90% Michigan State University School of Hospitality Business 89% New York University 88% Boston College Connell School of Nursing 88% Boston College Carroll School of Management 87% Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing 86% Highest Employment Rates (2012) 1. Princeton University 2. Harvard University 3. Yale University 4. Columbia University 5. Stanford University 6. University of Chicago 7. Duke University 8. MIT 9. University of Pennsylvania 10. California Institue of Technology U.S. News and World Report Ranking Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

16. Postmodernism Post•mod•ern•ism: a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmodernismQuestions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

17. Our Methodology • Outcomes focused • Project-based curriculum using real datasets • Guest lectures from leaders in the ﬁeld • Mock interviews and hiring preparation • Full instructional staff + personal mentorship Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

18. Our Methodology Com m unity Education Industry Meetup Student Groups Corporate Training Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

19. Students program. Python for 10hrs/day Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

20. Students program Python. for 10hrs/day Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

21. Students program Python for 10hrs/day. Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

22. Students program Python for 10hrs/day. SQL Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

23. Students program Python for 10hrs/day. UNIX SQL Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

24. Students program Python for 10hrs/day UNIX SQL to solve data science problems. Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

25. Students program Python for 10hrs/day case studies. UNIX SQL to solve data science problems. Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

26. Students program Python for 10hrs/day case studies. projects. UNIX SQL to solve data science problems. Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

27. Industry But we can all learn from each other… Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

28. Industry Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy #pydata Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism But we can all learn from each other… Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

29. Industry Student Projects Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

30. Production Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy Source: http://graphlab.com/products/create/overview.html

31. Pipeline Acquisition Parse Storage Transform/Explore Vectorization Train Model Expose Presentation requests BeautifulSoup4 pandas pymongo Flask yHat scikit-learn/NLTK Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

32. Acquisition Parse Storage Transform/Explore Vectorization Train Model Expose Presentation requests BeautifulSoup4 Flask Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy pandas pymongo yHat scikit-learn/NLTK Pipeline

33. GraphLab Acquisition Parse Storage Transform/Explore Vectorization Train Model Expose Presentation requests BeautifulSoup4 Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy Flask

34. Our Methodology Questions? tweet @zipfianacademy #pydata Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism • Outcomes focused • Project-based curriculum using real datasets • Guest lectures from leaders in the field • Mock interviews and hiring preparation • Full instructional staff + personal mentorship Questions? tweet @zipfianacademy

35. The Programs Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy Program Data Science Immersive Data Science Fellowship Data Engineering Immersive Duration 12 Weeks 6 Weeks 12 Weeks Prerequisites • Programming Experience • Quantitative Background • Data Science Experience • Knowledge of Machine Learning Software Engineering Experience Curriculum • Stats/Probability • Machine Learning • NLP • Anomaly Detection • Social Network Analysis Capstone Project • Distributed Systems • ETL Pipelines • Databases • Stream Processing • Scalable Algorithms Price $16,000 FREE! $16,000

36. Timeline STRUCTURED CURRICULUM HIRING DAY CAPSTONE PROJECT GRADUATION 0 8 10.5 12 INTERVIEWS Data Science Immersive Data Fellowship Start Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

37. ! • Working knowledge of programming • Background in a quantitative discipline • Comfortable with mathematics and statistics • Child-like curiosity What We Look For Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

38. Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

39. ! • Working knowledge of programming • Background in a quantitative discipline • Comfortable with mathematics and statistics • Child-like curiosity What We Look For Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

40. ! • Present a guest lecture or share a data story • Donate datasets and propose projects • Sponsor a scholarship • Attend our Hiring Day (July 31st) Get Involved Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

41. ! • Full-time & Part-time Instructors • TAs • Data Scientist in Residence • Mentor (volunteer) We’re Hiring! Questions? tweet @zipﬁanacademy

42. ThankYou! Jonathan Dinu Co-Founder jonathan@zipﬁanacademy.com @clearspandex