{"id":125,"date":"2021-09-20T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/the-center-for-analytics-and-data-science\/?p=125"},"modified":"2021-09-20T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:39:50","slug":"share-the-love-data-analytics-coding-and-ohio-tech-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/the-center-for-analytics-and-data-science\/2021\/09\/share-the-love-data-analytics-coding-and-ohio-tech-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Share the Love: Data Analytics, Coding, and Ohio Tech Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

True confession: I\u2019m daunted by data analytics and coding. Well, I used to be. Maybe this is because I\u2019ve always thought of myself as a language nerd. Among my circle of friends in college, I was the only one majoring in two languages\u2014English and German. Actually, I started off pre-med, bouncing around from major to major until I finally committed to what I loved\u2014and what I feared wouldn\u2019t land me a job. But what I realized not too long after graduation is that my humanities education helped me focus<\/em> on nuances, on the details that often go unnoticed, on the stories inherent in a seeming jumble of symbols on a page or screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flash-forward several years to me as a grad student at Miami University. I was finally pursuing my other scholastic love duo\u2014design and tech. Walking one day to King Library, I saw a sandwich board advertising a new Data Analytics Awareness Microcredential from the Center for Analytics & Data Science (CADS). Free to current students! And starting this week! Was this for me? I liked the \u201cawareness\u201d part. Yeah, I got this. I eagerly snapped a pic of the ad and signed up as soon as I got home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flash-forward again a few years, now to me as marketing director at Joot<\/a>, a local tech startup that I was fortunate to discover at Miami\u2019s Architecture, Design & Emerging Technology Fair. I\u2019m lucky to have landed here, having walked a rather winding path to this exciting financial-services-plus-tech destination. One of the first opportunities I learned about after joining Joot is our partnership with OhioX<\/a>, a nonprofit helping people from all walks of life participate in and contribute to the vast world of tech and innovation, right here in Ohio. Working on a few OhioX committees introduced me to Ohio Tech Day<\/a>, a free event many months in the making and finally kicking off on September 24, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s where things come full circle. As a self-proclaimed language nerd, I was given the chance, thanks to CADS, to get my Data Analytics Awareness Microcredential, which demystified data analytics and coding to the point where I could actually do<\/em> this stuff\u2014and even apply these skills in my daily work. I had to find a way to give back. So I partnered with Phillip DiSilvestri, Joot\u2019s incredibly talented sales and marketing intern (and current Miami student), to develop a coding tutorial<\/a> that empowers students to learn the fundamentals of data analytics and coding in order to find relevant scholarship opportunities. This tutorial replicates, on a small scale, the kind of engagement and access I enjoyed through the CADS microcredential program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the story\u2019s not over yet. Our coding tutorial, which uses data from DataOhio<\/a>, sparked several conversations with companies and schools interested in making the tutorial even more engaging and accessible to more people. With the tremendous help of Dolr<\/a>, we\u2019re expanding the tutorial into more programming languages\u2014including Python, which the CADS microcredential introduced me to\u2014and giving students more opportunities to share their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our scholarship map coding tutorial<\/a> is living proof that anyone can do data analytics and coding. And anyone can apply these highly valuable skills to do good<\/em>\u2014for ourselves and others who maybe, at first, didn\u2019t think we could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong> <\/a>Karen Mauk<\/a> graduated from Miami University\u2019s Graduate School with an MFA in Experience Design (2021) and a graduate certificate in Interactive Media Studies (2019). She also participated in Miami\u2019s miniMBA (2021) and Data Analytics Awareness Microcredential (2020) programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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