Community Data Science Course (Spring 2016)/Day 2 Plan

Schedule

 * Assignment questions and issues (15m)
 * Announcements (15m)
 * Jason!
 * Why Python?
 * Python 2 vs Python 3
 * Office Hours
 * Project ideas (15m)
 * Data Sets!
 * The ones we'll cover in class:
 * Twitter API
 * Wikipedia API
 * Seattle Government Data
 * Other great sources of civic data
 * Many great sources of US Government data
 * The data behind FiveThirtyEight
 * The Federal Elections Committee
 * Recording: I'm giving it a try. My monitor and audio from my laptop will be captured. If nothing bad happens and you all watch the lectures, I'll keep doing it.
 * Interactive Lecture (120m)
 * Break (30m)
 * Wordplay project time (until end)