I’m sick of that bullshit about not being able to find women in tech: part 2

Yesterday, I wrote about Cindy Gallop’s talk on finding diverse talent The Rest of the Story … There were two additional points in her presentation I want to address, but first … You can take a  look at our latest prototype under development, Aztech, here and play it in Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer. Play…

Seriously, Don’t Say That Shit about Wanting Women in Tech Ever Again

First of all, you should all watch this video by the brilliant Cindy Gallop. Everything she says about recruiting women for jobs as Executive Creative Directors applies exactly to women, black , Hispanic or Native American men applying for jobs in technology or for investor funding. Did you watch it? Good! Let me reinforce one of her points….

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SAS Studio: Finding prevalence with pointing and clicking

Policy makers have very good reason for wanting to know how common a condition or disease is. It allows them to plan and budget for treatment facilities, supplies of medication, rehabilitation personnel. There are two broad answers to the question, “How common is condition X?” and, interestingly, both of these use the exact same SAS…

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Urban vs Rural Barriers to Ed Tech: An example of Fisher’s Exact Test

Who was it that said asking a statistician about sample size is like asking a jeweler about price. If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. We all know that the validity of a chi-square test is questionable if the expected sample size of the cells is less than five. Well, what do you…

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Watch me work: Finishing the test scoring with more SAS character functions

Recall that in the last post we were using SAS functions to score a test that had been completed by middle school and upper elementary students. Since we wanted to make it as easy as possible for students to enter their answers, we accepted just about any format. Picking up where we left off ……