My name is Josh. This is my website. You can find talks I’ve given and things I’ve written here.
Recent Posts
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Innovation Outsiders
The vast majority of big pillar innovation work being done in corporate america is relegated to innovation outsiders – groups external to the core product delivery teams (Labs, Innovation Teams, etc.). They are expected to find a business partner or a sponsoring executive that can fund their work to incrementally transform existing products. This approach has been historically fraught, both at more traditional as well as companies renowned for their technical innovation. The difficulty is driven by myriad issues including difficulty aligning roadmaps, funding, awareness and accommodating technical risk. This post lays out a hypothesis that you must reverse the flow of innovation, have it driven by transformative products and let the technical innovation derive from that.
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Course Complete!
So… it has been a while since my last update. This spring’s semester wrapped up well for both me, as well as the students in my Python for social scientists course.
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Computation Frameworks for the Social Sciences (aka I’m teaching a class)
This spring I am teaching my first course! It is a pretty small seminar, 8-10 graduate students, but they all seem excited about the material. It is a “Programming for Political Scientists” course that will use Python to both teach people how to write good software as well as show them how people are using software in the discipline currently. I hope to spend the first half of the course covering basic software engineering and computer science concepts before moving on to some specific applications. Hopefully, by the end of the course all of the students will have built something that they can use to further their research agendas (e.g. a web scraper to supplement a data set).