A look back at ten months in Germany: the analysis-strategies project with Professor Sabine Hoffmann, fourteen countries and ten venues, the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization seminar, and what the year taught me about working abroad.

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February 2026 · AI & Society

DEF CON Meets MCSC 2026: On Agency, AI, and the Future We Are Learning to Navigate

A reflection from the DEF CON Meets Munich Cyber Security Conference on a question that stayed with me all day: who has agency in the systems we are building, and how do we preserve it?

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Acknowledgments

Feedback & Review

Acknowledged for feedback on Data Manipulation in R (Locke Data).

Recommended Resources

Things I Point People To

Learn data science for free

The Carpentries: friendly, hands-on lessons in R, Python, and the shell.
R for Data Science: the free online book by Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Grolemund.
Kaggle Learn: short, practical micro-courses with hands-on notebooks.
freeCodeCamp: free, project-based programming and data-analysis courses.

For kids and teens curious about data

NASA Learning Resources: hands-on STEM activities, games, and projects for kids, students, and educators.
Bootstrap: Data Science: free classroom modules that teach data through algebra and code.
Data Nuggets: free activities that build data literacy with real datasets, for elementary through high school.
Scratch: a gentle, visual first step into coding and data for younger learners.