Coding in the Wild

In this episode on Coding in the Wild, we interview Joshua Kravitz, a recent Deputy Data Director for the Jon Ossoff U.S. Senate Campaign in Georgia. Joshua talks about how he uses programming in the political world. From creating phone banks for volunteers across 25 different languages to analyzing post-election data, Joshua shares that coding is extremely valuable to manage data and share insights throughout the campaign trail.

In this episode of Coding in the Wild, we interview Floor & Arno from the Netherlands! Floor Drees is a Developer Relations Manager at Microsoft, and Arno Fleming is a Tech Lead at The Next Closet, a sustainable marketplace for second hand designer fashion. Together they co-organize the Ruby Community in the Netherlands. Tune in as we discuss their love for the Ruby Community, English as a universal language for coders, and building inclusive communities in the programing world. 

Free web development for beginners course by Microsoft (mentioned by Floor): https://aka.ms/webdev-beginners

In this episode on Coding in the Wild, we interview Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Global People Research and Analytics lead at McGraw Hill. Sreyoshi uses her engineering background and interest in education to generate data-driven insights to improve culture, diversity, inclusion, leadership, and training in the workforce. "Coding is an integral part of people analytics and can help address challenges of inequities in the 21st century workforce by highlighting trends, predicting outcomes, and drawing insights to make sense of large datasets on employees at organizations." - Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri Recommended literature in this podcast on coding biases: - Book: Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble - Documentary: Coded Bias

In this episode on Coding in the Wild, we interview John Henry Thompson, an app developer and computer science and creative learning teacher, about his interest in both technology and art. John's most recent project is DiCE, an open source platform for exploring art, learning, and computer science. "I want to make it easy for people to use the computer as an expressive instrument, and to inspire people to learn about themselves and the world." - John Henry Thompson

In this episode on Coding in Open Source, we interview Feross Aboukhadijeh about his innovative projects and experience with open source software. Feross is an entrepreneur, programmer, open source author, and mad scientist who will tell you, "It's possible to make a profit and share your code with the world!"