Keynote: Data, Decision Making, and Being Human
summary
Data-driven claims and concrete artifacts, not platitudes: Jupyter notebooks are shown as the tool that helped Filipino health teams coordinate tuberculosis treatment and share analyses; Harvard Business Review numbers cite a 9–24% increase in advancement and pay with mentorship for underrepresented groups; an anecdote describes porting Breakout to an Apple II as a formative hands-on project; mentorship literally wins funding — a Digital Equipment scholarship and an MIT Sloan path emerge from specific guidance.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:57Mentoring importance
- 6:13Mentorship story
- 16:17Privilege and career choices
- 23:23Mentoring in communities
- 30:11Mentoring effectively
- 35:51Call to action and Q&A
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