My previous blog post focused on a graph, showing the % of women earning STEM degrees in various fields. While that graph was was designed to answer a very specific question, let’s now look at the data from a broader perspective. Let’s look at the tota…
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Are more women getting STEM degrees?
For the past several years, efforts have been under way to recruit more women into the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. I recently saw an interesting graph showing the percentage of bachelor’s degrees conferred to women in the …
What were your #FirstSevenLanguages?
My computer geek colleagues are boasting about their humble beginnings by sharing lists of their first seven programming languages. You can find these under the hashtag #FirstSevenLanguages. COBOLPL/1SASIFPSAPL370 AssemblerCSQLLisp#FirstSevenLanguages — Paul Kent (@hornpolish) August 16, 2016 From what I’ve seen of these lists, the programming languages that appear are very […]
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Why should we teach Roman numerals?
In my local paper this morning, I read about how a North Carolina state commission plans to recommend changes to our teaching standards for mathematics. One of the topics that they want to bring back: Roman numerals. Why? According to my exhaustive 30 seconds of Internet research, the only practical […]
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It’s raining analytics
I’m always looking for ways to make my job sound more relevant to people who ask me, “so what does SAS do?” SAS does so much that I can’t possibly list it all, so I need some umbrella terms that can capture the essence of it (and still keep the […]
Quantum Football, Electron Preschoolers, and Schrodinger’s STEM
At this time of year as fans debate over the best players in college football, quantum mechanics combines with college sports to produce the Heisman uncertainty principal: you cannot know who has won the trophy until it is announced, and so you ha…
Computer Science isn’t just for geeks anymore
Computer science is more than the pursuit of “let’s see what we can make this computer do.” If that’s your only goal, then you might make a fine computer geek, but a lousy computer scientist. In her blog post for Computer Science Education Week,…
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week with SAS: December 5-11
Next week we’ll be celebrating Computer Science Education Week. SAS is a partner in this event, which makes complete sense because we have a vested interest in creating more computer scientists. After all, SAS does employ a lot of them.
When I …