Math Honor Society

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1. West Linn HS ! Math Honor Society Zach Williams, Portland Trail Blazers → Slides online: westlinnmath.com
2. What do I do? Director of Analytics → Build websites and apps → Write pregame/postgame reports → Answer questions
3. What did I study? Psychology → Wasn't going to get a job with that degree... → Learned how to build websites
4. Math I use everyday... Pareto Principle
5. Pareto Principle Most things in life are not distributed evenly. → 20% of the effort produces 80% of the result → 20% of the population holds 80% of the wealth
6. Math I use everyday... Python
7. Python Programming Language → Great for scraping websites → Working with data → Building websites
8. "How do I work in the NBA?" Build cool stuff! → Build cool stuff and put it on GitHub → Read Cleaning the Glass → Internships
9. Book Recommendations → Books I'd recommend for Past Me...
10. Everyone has 1,000 bad drawings inside them. The sooner we get those out, the sooner we can start making better drawings. — Jacob Eitling
11. Thanks! → Slides online: westlinnmath.com