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Galvanize
Bookmarks
The Hacker's Guide to Startup Fundraising
Fletcher Richman's practical guide to startup fundraising from the Galvanize blog — covering seed rounds, angel investors, term sheets, and the psychological dynamics of the fundraising process. A practitioner's account from inside the tech education and startup ecosystem.
Software Engineering Daily: Data Science with Jonathan Dinu and Ryan Orban
Ryan Orban and Jonathan Dinu on Software Engineering Daily talking about data science education and the thesis that 'everyone needs a data scientist' — recorded during Galvanize's peak influence on the data science bootcamp market.
Tech Inclusion Conference 2015
Tech Inclusion 2015, a San Francisco conference exploring solutions to the diversity and inclusion gap in tech — hosted at Galvanize. One of the early large-format events treating representation as a systemic engineering problem rather than a PR issue.
What Is It Like to Attend Zipfian Academy / Galvanize?
A Quora answer from a Zipfian Academy / Galvanize data science bootcamp graduate — one of many first-person accounts that shaped perception of the program during its peak years.
Data is Ugly: Tales of Data Cleaning
Ryan Orban's KDnuggets piece on data cleaning — arguing that teaching data scientists and engineers to understand each other's work is more important than any technical fix. The piece reframes data quality as an organizational problem, not just a technical one.
Using Data to Show Product Integrations (Interactive)
Ryan Orban's Galvanize blog post introducing an interactive D3 visualization of SaaS product integrations — using network graph structure to show which tools companies use together. An early example of using graph visualization for product market analysis.
Code Academy as Career Game-Changer (NYT, 2015)
The New York Times profiling coding bootcamps as legitimate career changers in 2015 — a mainstream media validation moment that preceded the eventual credential inflation and quality variance problems that followed. Galvanize was prominently featured.
Why We Partnered with Google to Expand to London
Galvanize's announcement of its London expansion in partnership with Google — its first international move, targeting the European tech education market. The Google partnership gave Galvanize credibility and potentially access to Google's London tech ecosystem.
3 Things About Data Science You Won't Find In Books
Three things about data science that don't appear in textbooks — the communication overhead, the 80% time spent on data wrangling, and the organizational politics of getting models deployed. Classic practitioner wisdom from Galvanize/KDnuggets circa 2015.
Galvanize Opens 71,000 Sq Ft Seattle Tech Campus
Galvanize's announcement of a 71,000 sq ft Seattle campus — its largest at the time. The expansion reflected the peak of the coworking/coding bootcamp hybrid model that Galvanize pioneered, mixing startup tenants with bootcamp students under one roof.
Galvanize Acquires Zipfian Academy — WSJ
WSJ coverage of Galvanize's acquisition of Zipfian Academy in November 2014 — the deal that merged the data science bootcamp into Galvanize's broader tech education platform. A pivot point for both organizations.