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Udacity: What Does Udacity Do with Data?
Andrew When I tell people that I'm a data science intern at Udacity, I’m often greeted with an intrigued smile or a quizzical look. "How exactly does Udacity use data?" I’m often asked. After all, the words “data-driven” and “education” until recently rarely appeared in the same sentence; now Udacity, despite being only 50 people, already has a data team? Data are so important at Udacity because being data-driven is the only way we can keep learning and getting better for our students. Like any other company, we learn a lot from our data, but for us it's not just about optimizing visitors and conversion numbers. Analyzing data is how we learn about what differentiates our most driven students from the rest, which aspects of our teaching and tutoring increase comprehension and retention, and why some students think about Udacity 24/7 and others have only brief infatuations with it. One particularly exciting part of my work is taking findings from f…