Tag: Critical Thinking

Interview with a Data Scientist: Ignacio Elola

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As part of my ongoing series with interviews with Data Scientists and Data Analysts, I provide an interview with Ignacio Elola, who is the data scientist at Import.io. Import.io is a cool web platform for allowing you easier access to web data and is one of the cool data scientist enabling tools we see on… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientist: Ignacio Elola

Programming as an essential skill

Posted in Cognitive toolkit, Critical Thinking, Education, Mathematics, Programming, Technology

In discussions about jobs and the future. We sometimes make references to skills. In educational communities people speak of ‘transferable skills’ and ‘critical thinking’. Recently its become fashionable to discuss STEM. On this blog I’ve written some things about this. The following articles re-inspired my interest On Reviews in Depth: Why everyone should learn to… Continue reading Programming as an essential skill