Featured Presentations at WiDS Worldwide 2021
Over 40 speakers presented at the 24-hour virtual WiDS Worldwide conference. WiDS Worldwide also included Best of WiDS videos, highlighting talks from WiDS Stanford and regional events.
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Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate
Andrea Ghez, UCLA Where do space and time mix? This is what makes black holes so intriguing to physicists. These are objects, where the pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape them, not even light. |
Diversity and Data Science Education Panel with Talithia Washington, Jo Boaler, Karina Edmonds, Loreto Bravo
It’s really important that we bring data science into K-12 education. Kids live in this data filled world, and there, they need to be developing data literacy just to live effectively as teenagers and as young people. |
Data Visualization as Exploratory Medium with Fernanda Viégas, Google
We humans are pattern seeking machines, visual patterns, seeking machines. And so once we can visualize data, we immediately take advantage of innate capabilities that we have in our brain. This is why data visualization can be so powerful. |
WiDS Worldwide session playlists, in Spanish:
WiDS Mundial 2021 Presentadoras del Escenario Principal
WiDS Mundial 2021 Talleres de Trabajo
WiDS Mundial 2021 Conozca Las Presentadoras
WiDS Mundial 2021 Presentadoras del Escenario Principal
WiDS Mundial 2021 Talleres de Trabajo
WiDS Mundial 2021 Conozca Las Presentadoras