Editing Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2014)/Reflections (section)

=== Afternoon sessions ===

We felt that that the new [[Baby Names]] project was excellent and feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Because it includes both dictionaries and lists of names (in the form of <code>.keys()</code> methods), it can do everything that [[Wordplay]] can but it has a much stronger feel of data science to it and, generally, a higher ceiling.  Wordplay felt relatively boring.

Suggestions based on feedback include:

* Do a better job of bringing folks back together to walk through potential solutions to the questions posed in the project rooms.
* Consider simply having two smaller rooms doing [[Baby Names]] and perhaps having one that emphasizes more numeric and math operations.
* Prepare questions before hand, list them all up front, and let folks choose what to work on.