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Regression Discontinuity: Understanding the Benefit of Subtitles on Coursera
Regression Discontinuity: Understanding the Benefit of Subtitles on Coursera
This is Part III of our Causal Impact @ Coursera series. (Part II is here)
Vinod Bakthavachalam
Apr 9, 2020
Instrumental Variables & Randomized Encouragement Trials: Driving Engagement of Learners
Instrumental Variables & Randomized Encouragement Trials: Driving Engagement of Learners
This is Part II of our Causal Impact @ Coursera series. (Part I is here)
Vinod Bakthavachalam
Oct 18, 2019
Order from Chaos: Understanding Search Queries through Vectors
Order from Chaos: Understanding Search Queries through Vectors
The Query2Vec pipeline and a foray into word embeddings
Myra Cheng
Sep 13, 2019
An engineer’s perspective on engineering and data science collaboration for data products
An engineer’s perspective on engineering and data science collaboration for data products
Three themes that have worked well for us at Coursera for data product development— from the perspective of an engineer.
Chris Liu
May 20, 2019
How Online Education Is Increasing Gender Diversity in STEM
By Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data Science at Coursera in collaboration with Alan Hickey and Vinod Bakthavachalam, Senior Data…
Vinod Bakthavachalam
Mar 8, 2019
Controlled Regression: Quantifying the Impact of Course Quality on Learner Retention
Controlled Regression: Quantifying the Impact of Course Quality on Learner Retention
This is Part I of our Causal Impact @ Coursera series.
Vinod Bakthavachalam
Nov 8, 2018
Keeping students on-track
Keeping students on-track
How our algorithms identify at-risk students, powering automated and human interventions
Alan Hickey
Sep 17, 2018
Data Driven Content Categorization
Data Driven Content Categorization
How Coursera generated course categories from thousands of courses using a data driven clustering approach.
Chris Liu
Sep 11, 2018
The Power of Goals
The Power of Goals
How setting — and being reminded of — goals are moving the needle for learners
Marianne Sorba
Aug 14, 2018
Deep learning to intervene where it counts
Deep learning to intervene where it counts
How we built a feedback loop to optimize learning nudges
Marianne Sorba
Aug 14, 2018
Skills benchmarking
Skills benchmarking
How ML-powered skills insights are guiding talent strategy and development
Vinod Bakthavachalam
Aug 7, 2018
Measuring outcomes of high schoolers taking Computer Science courses
Measuring outcomes of high schoolers taking Computer Science courses
A case study on using Coursera in the classroom
Vinod Bakthavachalam
Jul 25, 2018
Building data services to bring education to millions, Part III
Building data services to bring education to millions, Part III
Piloting Self-Serve Analytics as a Service
Ronak Shah
Jul 18, 2018
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
At Coursera, we use data to power our product and better serve our learners. One example is our Skills Graph —a series of algorithms…
Emily Glassberg Sands
Jul 10, 2018
Using technology to increase equality of opportunity
Using technology to increase equality of opportunity
How targeted review material is helping close the gender gap in STEM
Vinod Bakthavachalam
Jun 26, 2018
Building data services to bring education to millions, Part II
Building data services to bring education to millions, Part II
An embedded approach to in-platform analytics
Ronak Shah
Jun 18, 2018
Building data services to bring education to millions, Part I
Building data services to bring education to millions, Part I
Data solutions empowering university and industry partners, and enterprise customers
Ronak Shah
Jun 18, 2018
How A/B Testing Powers Pedagogy on Coursera
How A/B Testing Powers Pedagogy on Coursera
A/B testing is used throughout the tech world to build more engaging and valuable products. By randomizing users into either the current…
Dan Saber
Jun 14, 2018
Automated coaching
Automated coaching
Coursera’s algorithms guide and motivate to give learners a leg up — plus do what only machines can
Alan Hickey
Jun 4, 2018
Join Us for an Evening of Data Science
Join Us for an Evening of Data Science
Lightning Talks @ Coursera
Emily Glassberg Sands
Jan 3, 2017
Data Science Lightning Talks
Data Science Lightning Talks
An Evening with Coursera Data Science & Women Who Code
Emily Glassberg Sands
Jan 25, 2017
Diversity in Data Science
Diversity in Data Science
Sourcing, hiring, and growing female talent
Emily Glassberg Sands
Jan 31, 2017
Role models matter
Role models matter
How female instructors can help close the gender gap in STEM
Emily Glassberg Sands
Mar 8, 2017
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
ICDM 2018 Workshop on Data Mining for eLearning Personalization
Emily Glassberg Sands
May 5, 2018
What about the women?
What about the women?
“Education is one of the most important means of empowering women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence necessary to participate…
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