Susan Holcomb's guest appearances

Susan Holcomb

Towards Data Science

EdCuration: Where We Reshape Learning

Sarah Williams

Ben Goertzel

Jeremy Howard

Roland Memisevic

Max Welling

Ayanna Howard

Mike Tung

Margaret Mitchell

Andrew Roberts

Melanie Mitchell

Gillian Hadfield

Anders Sandberg

Brian Christian

Joel Grus

Jeffrey Ding

OwlTail

Veteran Gifted and Talented teacher Susan Holcomb, shares how the national WordMasters Challenge competition keeps vocabulary alive through analogy and competition. She credits the program with developing autonomous learners who consistently end up as merit scholars. Each year, over 125,000 students from some of the best public and private schools throughout the United States participate.   Resources: Connect to WordMasters Challenge Read more about WordMasters &amp; related research

Veteran Gifted and Talented teacher Susan Holcomb, shares how the national WordMasters Challenge competition keeps vocabulary alive through analogy and competition. She credits the program with developing autonomous learners who consistently end up as merit scholars. Each year, over 125,000 students from some of the best public and private schools throughout the United States participate. Resources: Connect to <a href="https://edcuration.com/715/WordMasters+Challenge#topAnchor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WordMasters Challenge</a> Read more about <a href="https://blog.edcuration.com/a-world-made-of-words-dont-give-up-on-teaching-vocabulary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WordMasters &amp; related research</a>

Vocabulary study as a sport? Susan Holcomb tells you how.

It’s easy to think of data science as a technical discipline, but in practice, things don’t really work out that way. If you’re going to be a successful data scientist, people will need to believe that you can add value in order to hire you, people will need to believe in your pet project in order to endorse it within your company, and people will need to make decisions based on the insights you pull out of your data. Although it’s easy to forget about the human element, managing it is one of the most useful skills you can develop if you want to climb the data science ladder, and land that first job, or that promotion you’re after. And that’s exactly why we sat down with Susan Holcomb, the former Head of Data at Pebble, the world’s first smartwatch company. When Pebble first hired her, Susan was fresh out of grad school in physics, and had never led a team, or interacted with startup executives. As the company grew, she had to figure out how to get Pebble’s leadership to support her effort to push the company in a more data-driven direction, at the same time as she managed a team of data scientists for the first time. 

It’s easy to think of data science as a technical discipline, but in practice, things don’t really work out that way. If you’re going to be a successful data scientist, people will need to believe that you can add value in order to hire you, people will need to believe in your pet project in order to endorse it within your company, and people will need to make decisions based on the insights you pull out of your data. Although it’s easy to forget about the human element, managing it is one of the most useful skills you can develop if you want to climb the data science ladder, and land that first job, or that promotion you’re after. And that’s exactly why we sat down with Susan Holcomb, the former Head of Data at Pebble, the world’s first smartwatch company. When Pebble first hired her, Susan was fresh out of grad school in physics, and had never led a team, or interacted with startup executives. As the company grew, she had to figure out how to get Pebble’s leadership to support her effort to push the company in a more data-driven direction, at the same time as she managed a team of data scientists for the first time.

Susan Holcomb - Nontechnical career skills for data scientists