Talks

I give talks on data science, R, career transitions for academics, edtech, and educational measurement.

• Hands-on Lab: Amplify, Looker and the Central Source of Truth
  Two hands-on workshops about using the Looker API to pull metadata out of the lookML layer and use that in documentation systems.
  at Looker JOIN 2019 conference
  2019-11-06, 2019-11-07

• Continuous Documentation with Blogdown
  Presentation on using blogdown to build a website for data documentation on top of a large data warehouse.
  at R-Ladies NYC meetup
  2019-10-22

• Data Science Speaker Series
  Panel discussion on careers in data science
  at Rockefeller University, Data Science Initiative
  2018-10-30

• A Closer Look: What is Data Analytics, and How to Build a Data-driven Team
  Panel discussion at the inaugral NYC Looker meetup
  at the Looker NY meetup
  2018-09-13

• Science Alumni Mentoring Roundtable
  at CUNY Graduate Center
  2018-02-08

• Automated Scoring of Complex Technology-Enhanced Tasks in a Middle School Science Unit
  Accepted talk on implementing a classification algorithm to score student work in an educational app.
  at National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME),
  annual conference.
  2016-04-11

• Comparative Biology as Data Science
  Presentation on career transition from academia to industry
  at American Museum of Natural History
  2015 and 2016

• Adaptive Learning in Simulations & Games: Aspects of the response scoring process
  A presentation on Amplify’s evidence-centered design approach to educational apps
  at Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics meetup
  2015-11-16