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Lately I have been captivated by the BBC’s Great British Bake Off (GBBO) on Netflix. With each season a diverse set of 12 British contestants gather under an enormous tent to translate vague recipes into finished baking products. This reminds me so much of software and data product development! Read More

One of the best things about the Data Science bootcamp at NSS is the opportunity for students to practice skills while answering real-world questions posed by people who know the domain area well. In October, students explored Nashville building permit data and property assessment data along with zip code-level tax return data to understand how the supply and demand of affordable housing has been changing since 2009. Read More

Before attending Nashville Software School’s (NSS) Data Science Bootcamp, Justin Rothbart was a workforce analyst for an insurance company. He was working with Excel and SQL but was looking to grow as an analyst and learn more tools. As he explored ways to automate parts of his job, he kept running into Python and R which sparked his interest in programming. He started to look at Master’s programs, but found NSS’s data science program and decided to apply. Read More

Last week Data Science Cohort 2 started their first team project and Data Question 2. The data holds information about computing jobs that were submitted over the course of a year at ACCRE, Vanderbilt’s Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education. Read More

This week we attended The Nashville Analytics Summit. Several of our recent data science graduates were on hand to share their experience. Read More

On Tuesday night our first data science cohort celebrated their graduation with Demo Day! Community involvement throughout our first cohort was key to our success. Whether you were a guest speaker, a mentor, a roundtable participant, or provided data and a data question, we could not have done this without your support. Read More

Summer is here, so it seems like a good time to talk about America’s favorite summer pastime...baseball. Evan Lancaster, a fan of the Chicago Cubs and Anthony Rizzo, wanted to analyze the pitches thrown to one of baseball’s greatest hitter (Rizzo) to see if he could design a model to help managers and pitchers answer the question of how to pitch to the best hitters in baseball. Read More

Independent record labels have a lot of data at their disposal, but they don’t always have an easy way to gain insights from that data. Xander Morrison joined our Data Science bootcamp to create tools that allow the team at Gotee Records to gain insights about how their music is being consumed. See what Xander built to learn more about how Gotee's artists are being streamed. Read More

We often focus our attention on events with numerous fatalities, but across the US, road traffic crashes (RTCs) are claiming lives on a daily basis. In his research for his mid-course capstone, Dereje Getu Demissie discovered some alarming statistics and looked at data from 2016 to see what is causing all of the fatalities. Read More