Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck once famously said, “Jazz stands for freedom. Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don’t be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians.” For Lipton, freedom came from the ability to pursue his intellectual curiosity and scholarship on a full-time basis.
You may not think to look for predictive analytics algorithms and lines of code among the flickering candlelight of a jazz bar. But there isn’t as much distance between data science and jazz music as you might expect. In fact, CMU Tepper School of Business professor Zachary Lipton holds passions for both, at least when he’s not founding new start-ups or teaching machine learning courses in our business analytics masters degree online
