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The '''Community Data Science Workshops in Fall 2015''' are a series of project-based workshops being held at the University of Washington for anyone interested in learning how to use programming and data science tools to ask and answer questions about online communities like [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], [http://twitter.com Twitter], [[:w:Free software|free and open source software, and]] civic media. | The '''Community Data Science Workshops in Fall 2015''' are a series of project-based workshops being held at the University of Washington for anyone interested in learning how to use programming and data science tools to ask and answer questions about online communities like [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], [http://twitter.com Twitter], [[:w:Free software|free and open source software, and]] civic media. | ||
The | The workshops are for people with absolutely no previous programming experience and they bring together researchers and academics with participants and leaders in online communities. The workshops are run entirely by volunteers and are entirely free of charge for participants, generously sponsored by the [http://www.com.washington.edu/ UW Department of Communication] and the [http://escience.washington.edu/ eScience Institute]. Participants from outside UW are encouraged to apply. | ||
Our goal is that, after the three workshops, participants will be able to use data to produce numbers, hypothesis tests, tables, and graphical visualizations to answer questions like: | Our goal is that, after the three workshops, participants will be able to use data to produce numbers, hypothesis tests, tables, and graphical visualizations to answer questions like: |