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Over three weekends in Spring 2014, a group of volunteers organized the [[Community Data Science Workshops | Over three weekends in Spring 2014, a group of volunteers organized the [[Community Data Science Workshops]] (CDSW) — a series of four sessions designed to introduce some of the basic tools of programming and analysis of data from online communities to absolute beginners. The CDSW were held between April 4th and May 31st in 2014 at the University of Washington in Seattle. | ||
This page hosts reflections on organization and curriculum and is written for anybody interested in organizing their own CDSW — including the authors! | This page hosts reflections on organization and curriculum and is written for anybody interested in organizing their own CDSW — including the authors! | ||
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In general, the mentors and students suggested that the workshops were a huge success. Students suggested that learned an enormous amount and benefited enormously. Mentors were also generally very excited about running similar projects in the future. That said, we all felt there were many ways to improve on the sessions which are detailed below. | In general, the mentors and students suggested that the workshops were a huge success. Students suggested that learned an enormous amount and benefited enormously. Mentors were also generally very excited about running similar projects in the future. That said, we all felt there were many ways to improve on the sessions which are detailed below. | ||
If you have any questions or issues, you can contact [[Benjamin Mako Hill]] directly or can email the whole group of mentors at cdsw | If you have any questions or issues, you can contact [[Benjamin Mako Hill]] directly or can email the whole group of mentors at cdsw-mentors@uw.edu. | ||
== Structure == | == Structure == | ||
The [[ | The [[CDSW]] consisted of [[CDSW#Schedule|four sessions]]: | ||
* '''Session 0 (Friday April 4th)''': [[ | * '''Session 0 (Friday April 4th)''': [[CDSW#Session 0 (Friday April 4th Evening 6-9pm)|Setup and Programming Practice]] | ||
* '''Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)''': [[ | * '''Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)''': [[CDSW#Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)|Introduction to Python]] | ||
* '''Session 2 (Saturday May 3rd)''': [[ | * '''Session 2 (Saturday May 3rd)''': [[CDSW#Session 2 (Saturday May 3rd)|Building data sets using web APIs]] | ||
* '''Session 3 (Saturday May 31st)''': [[ | * '''Session 3 (Saturday May 31st)''': [[CDSW# Session 3 (Saturday May 31st)|Data analysis and visualization]] | ||
Our organization and the curriculum for Sessions 0 and 1 were borrowed from the [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/ Boston Python Workshop] (BPW): Session 0 was a three hour evening session to install software. The other sessions were all day-long session (10am to 4pm) sessions broken up into the following schedule: | Our organization and the curriculum for Sessions 0 and 1 were borrowed from the [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/ Boston Python Workshop] (BPW): Session 0 was a three hour evening session to install software. The other sessions were all day-long session (10am to 4pm) sessions broken up into the following schedule: | ||
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=== Projects === | === Projects === | ||
In the afternoons, we | In the afternoons, we broken into small groups to work on "projects". In each afternoon we tried to have three afternoon project tracks: Two projects on different substantive topics for learners with different interests and a third project that was much more self-directed. | ||
In Sessions 1 and 2, the self-directed projects were based on working through examples from [http://www.codecademy.com/ Code Academy] that we had put from material already online on the website. In the self-directed track, students could work at their own pace with mentors on hand to work with them when they became stuck. | In Sessions 1 and 2, the self-directed projects were based on working through examples from [http://www.codecademy.com/ Code Academy] that we had put from material already online on the website. In the self-directed track, students could work at their own pace with mentors on hand to work with them when they became stuck. |