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Oct 2019
54m 59s

309: Learning Through Competition

Jon Krohn
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A conversation between rival online educators in the data science community about the challenges of creating a worldwide community with millions of students, the trends in data science, and how education can keep up to date. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/309 
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