I was thrilled to have my first Gates Notes Deep Dive.

The new initiative where select groups of students

are nominated by their universities to meet with Bill

and participate in content briefings from subject matter experts.

Let's welcome someone to the virtual stage

who is even more passionate about data than I am.

Bill, welcome.

Hi.

Education is something that I'm dying to learn how we can do better,

both as a country and in terms of who the Foundation is backing.

Our Foundation is trying to build data visualizations

that help people in the education sector

find best practices, to understand the trends.

It all began with this question

“What is the value of a college degree?”

Love that.

Guided Insight leverages said student-level, enrollment

and graduation data to get actionable insights into the field.

And it was thrilling to not only see a demonstration

of some of the early tools that are emerging

to help students, and teachers, and policy makers,

but also to engage in a dialogue with young people

who are going to take this forward.

Thank you! Good to be here.

They asked great questions.

Hi, everyone. Hi, Bill.

I have a broader question around big data

and technologies across the lifespan.

They're the ones who are going to help us

design the tools in the right way

and use it to really improve not only overall educational levels,

but also the inequities in our educational system.

This is a new data tool we put together

over the course of the last year or so.

It can be used to help guide some actionable policy making

at the local policymaker level.

As you can see on the visualization,

this approach has been incredibly successful.

Young people like that have an aspiration to make it far better.

How do we dismantle many of our notions

of normative demographics?

What kinds of knowledge does the average teacher need

to value these big data sets?

I'm very excited that we're able to back them

with the right tools to improve this country.

Welcome to our first ever Gates Notes Deep Dive.