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

Schedule

• Assignment questions and issues (15m)
• Announcements (15m)
  • 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)