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Like many Nashvillians, Brandon Morgan has a long and hard history with tornadoes, so it’s no surprise that when it came time to pick a topic for capstone projects, Brandon chose to explore historic tornado data in Middle Tennessee. Now a graduate of Full-time Data Analytics Cohort 3, Brandon shares that he is “ecstatic” to begin his career and looks forward to being able to continue to learn and expand his knowledge every day. Read More

Topics: Student Stories, Hiring?, Analytics + Data Science

Elizabeth Senft of Full-time Data Analytics Cohort 3 describes herself as a creative, analytical thinker. As she seeks to utilize her passion for solving complex problems with data analytics, her background in culinary arts helped her hone her skills such as detail orientation, her ability to adapt in any environment, and a never give up mentality. Learn more about Elizabeth when you listen to her podcast! Read More

Topics: Student Stories, Hiring?, Analytics + Data Science

Meet Chip Hubbard, a graduate of Full-time Data Analytics Cohort 3. Listen to his podcast to learn about his NSS experience and his capstone project. Read More

Topics: Student Stories, Hiring?, Analytics + Data Science

Our March Data Viz Competition introduced a 19-table relational database with information about regular season and NCAA Tournament games for men and women over the past 20+ years. Congratulations to part-time Data Analytics Cohort 4 student Brenda Gutman! Read More

Topics: Student Stories, Analytics + Data Science

Join us on May 5th at 6pm as John Wark and a panel of local tech community members and NSS graduates discuss where tech in Nashville is heading, how the local community is already preparing, and how you can help NSS provide more opportunities to adults looking to make the leap into a tech career. Read More

Topics: News, Community, Analytics + Data Science, Technology Insights, Get Involved, Web Development

Paulo G. Martinez of Data Science Cohort 1 catches us up on what he’s been up to since graduating, how NSS prepared him for his new career, what helped him land his job at Google. Read More

Topics: Alumni, Analytics + Data Science

Students in Data Science Cohort 4 have recently been studying machine learning, and to practice what they’ve been learning they took part in a competition hosted on Kaggle.com. For our competition, the student groups were tasked with building a model to predict the permeability, or ease of fluid flow, through synthetic microstructures. Read More

Topics: Student Stories, Learning, Analytics + Data Science

Building on her dissertation work at Vanderbilt University, Oluchi Randolph of Data Science Cohort 4 chose to explore perspectives on the immigrant integration process in the United States for her mid-course capstone project. Read More

Topics: Student Stories, Analytics + Data Science

Mikil Taylor, VP of Analytics at Healthcare Bluebook, gave high praise on LinkedIn for the presentation he witnessed last week given by Nashville Software School’s Data Science Cohort 4. Read More

Topics: Student Stories, Analytics + Data Science