Sydney Bramen isn’t your typical high school student. But the 17-year-old squash player, who tutors younger students as part of two Philadelphia volunteer programs, sees inequities in education and hopes to tackle them with data science. She’ll do just that at the third annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) @ Penn conference on Feb. 9 and 10, co-hosted by Analytics at Wharton, Penn Engineering, and Wharton Customer Analytics. The event is designed to celebrate the diversity of subject matter and personnel in data science, and will feature an array of academic, student, and industry speakers.
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Data is transforming the world in many ways. Data science is one way that technology is helping people and businesses make sense of it all. This unit will explore the tools and techniques of data science while learning to apply them to real problems.
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