Editing Community Data Science Workshops (Winter 2020)/Reflections (section)

== Structure ==

The [[Community Data Science Workshops (Winter 2020)]] consisted of [[Community Data Science Workshops (Winter 2020)#Schedule|four sessions]]:

* '''Session 0 (Friday January 17th)''': [[Community Data Science Workshops (Winter 2020)#Session 0|Setup and Programming Practice]]
* '''Session 1 (Saturday January 18th)''': [[Community Data Science Workshops (Winter 2020)#Session 1|Introduction to Python]]
* '''Session 2 (Saturday January 15th)''': [[Community Data Science Workshops (Winter 2020)#Session 2|Building data sets using web APIs]]
* '''Session 3 (Saturday January 22nd)''':   [[Community Data Science Workshops (Winter 2020)#Session 3|Data analysis and visualization]]

Our organization and the curriculum for Sessions 0 and 1 were originally borrowed from the [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/ Boston Python Workshop] (BPW) although our curriculum has diverged quite a bit as we've improved it and tailored it to the specific learning goals in our sessions.

Session 0 was a three hour evening session to install software. All three of the other sessions were all day-long session (10am to 4pm) sessions broken up into the following schedule:

* '''Morning, 10am-12:20''': A 2 hour lecture
* '''Lunch, 12:20-1pm'''
* '''Afternoon, 1pm-3:30pm''': Practice working on projects in 3 breakout sessions
* '''Wrap-up, 3:30pm-4pm''': Wrap-up, next steps, and upcoming opportunities

We collected detailed feedback from users at three points using the following Google forms (these are copies):

* '''add surveys here''' 

We used this feedback to both evaluate what worked well and what did not and to get a sense of what students wanted to learn in the next session and which afternoon sessions they might find interesting.