From friendship bracelets to song streaming data, a Taylor Swift-inspired workshop series at the University of Delaware is helping students learn data analysis.
Data Enchanted is the clever title of a University of Delaware workshop series on data analytics and, if it sounds intimidating, Assistant Economics Professor Dr. Kathryn Bender gets that."The friendship bracelets. Yes!" she said. It is a favorite of Taylor Swift fans."You're just sitting there putting a bead on a string and it also makes meeting new people and talking to people a little bit easier," said Dr. Bender who came up with the theme.
MORE TAYLOR SWIFT HEADLINES:"It just gives somebody a real understanding of what they learn in class that they don't really get just through doing homework and exams," he said.And the Taylor tie?"Taylor Swift songs specifically data from Spotify. So looking at some variables we have made, like how playable it is for a car ride, time signature or length of the song," said Seymour.Emma Aucker says she had never done data analysis."It’s not something just like raw data.