{"id":1678,"date":"2024-09-30T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.me.holycross.edu\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2024-09-30T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:15:01","slug":"cutting-edge-python-workshop-offered-by-beau-lescott-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2024\/09\/30\/cutting-edge-python-workshop-offered-by-beau-lescott-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting-edge Python workshop offered by Beau Lescott ’95"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year the Ciocca Center was contacted by Beau<\/span>\u00a0Lescott<\/span>\u00a0’95<\/a>, (philosophy major) COO -Public Investing at Silver Point Capital because he wanted to pilot a workshop focused on giving liberal arts students technical skills in the area of coding. “Two of my favorite classes were logic,” starts Lescott, “taught by philosophy professor Karsten Stueber, and a philosophy of mind class that was offered jointly by the philosophy and psychology departments. These classes taught me the power of a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. As an investor, there is nothing more important than to be able to evaluate a puzzle from multiple angles. This ability grows in relative importance the further you are in your career.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the spring of 2024, we offered Beyond Excel: Python for Business Data Analytics, a workshop for 15 students from all four classes and a variety of majors. The goal was to help students gain exposure to the python programming language and learn how to approach strategic business questions using data-driven insights through coding exercises.<\/p>\n

This year we will offer it again as a two-part series, one weekend in the fall and the second in the spring, to provide students with the foundation to continue self-directed learning in more advanced areas of data analysis and draw on examples from real-world business operations.<\/p>\n