*Back by popular demand! *
I am helping organize another round of the Community Data Science Workshop
series with UW professor Benjamin Mako Hill, UW PhD Candidate Dharma
Dailey, and a growing cast of dedicated data science mentorship
professionals.
The workshops will be three and a half day-long workshops in April and May
for anyone interested in learning how to use programming and data science
tools to ask and answer questions about online communities like Wikipedia,
free and open source software, Twitter, civic media, etc. These will be an
improved version of the workshops we have run in the spring and fall last
year
<http://www.com.washington.edu/2014/03/free-community-data-science-workshop-series-for-novices-register-now/>
.
The workshops are for people with no previous programming experience and,
thanks to sponsorship from UW's eScience Institute
<http://escience.washington.edu/> and Department of Communication
<http://www.com.washington.edu/>, are free of charge and open to anyone.
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:
*- Are new contributors to an article in Wikipedia sticking around longer
or contributing more than people who joined last year?*
*- Who are the most active or influential users of a particular Twitter
hashtag?*
*- Are people who participated in a Wikipedia outreach event staying
involved? How do they compare to people that joined the project outside of
the event?*
Details and dates are online here:
http://wiki.communitydata.cc/CDSW_Spring_2015
*If you are interested in participating, fill out our registration at the
link above before April 3.* Register soon because we have been
oversubscribed both previous times we have run these workshops.
*If you already know how to program in Python, it would be really awesome
if you would volunteer as a mentor! *Being a mentor will involve working
with participants and talking them through the challenges they encounter in
programming. No special preparation is required. If you’re interested,
there’s a link on the page above or you can send me an email.
Regards,
Jonathan
(On behalf of Mako, Tommy, Ben, Dharma, the Community Data Science Research
Group <http://communitydata.cc/>, and all the CDSW mentors.)
*P.S. Apologies if you've received this announcement multiple times through
multiple channels!*