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Published in Coursera Engineering

·Jul 10, 2018

How our Skills Graph is helping learners find the right content to reach their goals

At Coursera, we use data to power our product and better serve our learners. One example is our Skills Graph —a series of algorithms connecting learners, content, and careers through a common skills currency. At its essence, the graph maps a robust library of skills to each other, to the…

Education

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How our Skills Graph is helping learners find the right content to reach their goals
How our Skills Graph is helping learners find the right content to reach their goals

Published in Coursera Engineering

·May 6, 2018

Call for Papers

ICDM 2018 Workshop on Data Mining for eLearning Personalization We are excited to co-organize a workshop at ICDM 2018 on applications of data mining for education! The ICDM 2018 Workshop on Data Mining for eLearning Personalization will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) on November 17, 2018 in Singapore. The workshop will bring…

Machine Learning

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Call for Papers
Call for Papers

Published in Teconomics

·Dec 31, 2017

Machine Learning Meets Instrumental Variables

Best of Both Worlds, Part 3: ML for Instrument Selection — This post was co-authored with Duncan Gilchrist and is Part 3 of our “Best of Both Worlds: An Applied Intro to ML For Causal Inference” series (Part 1 here, Part 2 here). Sample code, along with basic simulation results, is available on GitHub. We’re grateful to Evan Magnusson for his…

Data Science

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Machine Learning Meets Instrumental Variables
Machine Learning Meets Instrumental Variables

Published in Teconomics

·Nov 18, 2017

Machine Learning for Decision Making

Best of Both Worlds, Part 1 — This post was co-authored with Duncan Gilchrist and is Part 1 of our “Best of Both Worlds: An Applied Intro to ML for Causal Inference” series (Part 2 here). We’re grateful to Evan Magnusson for his strong thought-partnership and excellent insights throughout. Over the last couple years, we’ve been excited…

Machine Learning

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Machine Learning for Decision Making
Machine Learning for Decision Making

Published in Coursera Engineering

·Mar 8, 2017

Role models matter

How female instructors can help close the gender gap in STEM Coauthored with Vinod Bakthavachalam, Data Scientist at Coursera Coursera was founded on the belief that education can help anyone, anywhere improve their career and life outcomes. We strive to enable global, inclusive access to high-quality education — especially for those who have historically been underrepresented in university classrooms. …

Education

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Role models matter
Role models matter

Published in Coursera Engineering

·Jan 31, 2017

Diversity in Data Science

Sourcing, hiring, and growing female talent Here at Coursera, we are proud to have a data science team that is nearly half female. The problems we’re tackling demand creative approaches and, as the literature consistently shows, diversity unlocks innovation. Yet only 16% of technical roles at major tech companies are held by women. …

Diversity

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Diversity in Data Science
Diversity in Data Science

Published in Coursera Engineering

·Jan 4, 2017

Join Us for an Evening of Data Science

Lightning Talks @ Coursera Join us January 18 for the Women Who Code Silicon Valley Data Science 2017 kick-off! Lightning talks on Data Products, A/B Testing, Career, & more by Data Science women at Coursera. RSVP here.

Women In Tech

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Join Us for an Evening of Data Science
Join Us for an Evening of Data Science

Published in Teconomics

·Nov 5, 2016

Slides from Causal Inference Workshop

Here are slides from today’s Causal Inference in Tech workshop at the Open Data Science Conference. Thanks to all who participated!

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Published in Teconomics

·Nov 1, 2016

Why Do Job Referrals Matter?

Evidence from three field experiments Most workers in the U.S. find their jobs through friends and relatives, and companies are more likely to hire applicants who have been referred. …

Recruiting

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Published in Teconomics

·Oct 30, 2016

How to Get the Price Right

Tools for optimal price setting — This article was co-authored with Duncan Gilchrist. Sample code, along with basic simulation results, is available on GitHub. You have a product and you’re selling it. So the price is right. Or is it? In this post, we work through price setting — what to optimize for, how to learn…

Data Science

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How to Get the Price Right
How to Get the Price Right
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Head of Data Science @Coursera, Harvard Econ PhD

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