In this episode, we talk with educational consultant, data scientist, book author, podcast host, and former educational psychologist Ryan Estrellado about living in the Venn diagrams of overlapping professional communities and finding your (our) place in those intersections. We talk about practical strategies for working with educators who have a wide variety of interests in data and specifically tools for data analysis, and about breaking down common misconceptions about data analysis or data science as it can be used to answer real questions in local educational settings. Although we had planned to focus the episode on Ryan's new book, we accidentally ended up spending an entire hour discussing about unusual professional trajectories and how data and coding have influenced all of us (for the better). Some day we will do another episode where we actually talk about Ryan's book, but in the meantime, we recommend that you go ahead and check it out! The content is truly accessible to all educators, wherever you happen to be in terms of your data journey (whether that journey was embarked upon voluntarily or otherwise). Check out the link below to get a 20% off code for the book!

Abbreviations:

IDE: Integrated development environment https://www.codecademy.com/article/what-is-an-ide

Show notes:

Go to ryanestrellado.com to download a free chapter of The K–12 Educator’s Data Guidebook and a 20% off code

The K-12 Educator's Data Guidebook: Reimagining Practical Data Use in Schools

Donuts in the Lounge: A Podcast for Educators

Follow on Twitter & Instagram @ry_estrellado 

Data Science in Education using R (free open-source book with hands-on activities to learn R using real-world education contexts): https://datascienceineducation.com/

Strategic Data Project at Harvard: https://sdp.cepr.harvard.edu/home

South County SELPA at the San Diego County Office of Education: https://www.sdcoe.net/special-populations/selpas/scselpa

Chase Jarvis, Creative Calling https://www.creativelive.com/class/creative-calling-chase-jarvis/lessons/amplify-your-community

About Practice podcast (Ryan Estrellado & Joshua Rosenberg): https://open.spotify.com/show/4TzYLKTen3ZiJxiiKdHAsa

R Studio (free download): https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/

Tidyverse: https://www.tidyverse.org/

Hadley Wickham’s website and list of books: https://hadley.nz/

Julia Silge: https://juliasilge.com/about/

Kieran Healy: Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction https://socviz.co/

Rosh's favorite vending machine video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMW6JKNop1Y

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