On performing Data Science in the age of AI
For the last 3 weeks, I've been teaching into the course Programming Data Structures and Algorithms , part of the Masters in Business Adminstration and Data Science program at CBS. I teach the first six weeks of the course, which is essentially intro to Python programming. Its been an eye opening experience. Not least because its the first large class I've taught in well over a decade. Around 170 students, almost the entire cohort of the program, and for many, their first ever masters class, and for some, their first ever programming class. I've been fucking around with code for years, as the (two? three?) regular readers of this blog will attest. But the fact remains for the last seven years I have been, by intent and design, a qualitative scholar in the interpretive stance. And most of what programming I know is self-taught, unless you count the two weeks of R I did during Lance Waller's PhD seminar in ecological models at Emory in the late 2010s, and the handful o...