Greetings, Wikiresearchers!
On three Saturdays in April and May, Benjamin Mako Hill and I will be
running day-long project-based workshops at the University of Washington in
Seattle.
Anyone can participate--you don't have to be affiliated with UW. Although
you do have to be physically present in Seattle :(
The workshops are 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 and civic media.
The workshops are for people with no previous programming experience. We
hope to bring together researchers and participants in online communities.
The 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://networkcollectiv.es/2014/03/09/community-data-science-workshops/
If you are interested in participating, fill out our registration
form linked from the URL above before March 26th.
If you already know how to program (in Python), it would be 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 are interested,
send me an email.
--
Jonathan T. Morgan
Lecturer, Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
jmo25(a)uw.edu