If anyone is available and interested, the long-awaited reopening of the
Seattle Asian Art Museum is next week. The tickets for the opening weekend
have sold out, but we could tour around sometime (perhaps a Free First
Thursday/Saturday).
http://inspire.site.seattleartmuseum.org/
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*Bruce Englehardt*
sounderbruce(a)gmail.com
Greetings Wiki(m|p)edia people!
User:Jtmorgan and I are organizing another set of data science
workshops. As in previous years, we'll be using the Wikipedia API as
one of our main examples. If you've been interested in learning
programming and the Wikipedia API, this might be a great opportunity!
If you register, mention that you're a Wikipedian and on the list and
we'll try to make space for you.
Details are below.
Regards,
Mako
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 00:16:34 -0800
From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <makohill(a)uw.edu>
To: cdsw-announce(a)uw.edu
Subject: Community Data Science Workshops
Message-ID: <20200107081634.g7p7yvdehhx4ewvn(a)atdot.cc>
Greetings!
[ Please feel free to forward this on to any other people or lists who
you think might be interested!]
By popular demand, we are organizing another round of the Community
Data Science Workshops. The workshop series consists of one Friday
evening and three Saturday sessions in January and February. These
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, Twitter, Yelp, Twitter, civic media, free
and open source software, and so on. The Winter 2020 series will be an
updated version of the workshops we ran five times since 2014.
The workshops are for people with no previous programming experience
and are free of charge and open to anyone.
Our goal is that, after this workshop series, 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 an outreach event staying involved?
How do they compare to people who joined an online community outside
of the event?
Details and dates are online here:
https://wiki.communitydata.science/CDSW_Winter_2020
If you are interested in participating, please fill out our
registration at the link above before noon Sunday January 13. Register
soon because we tend to be oversubscribed!
If you already know how to program in Python, it would be really
awesome if you would volunteer as a mentor! Being a mentor involves
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. If you mentored before, it’s still easier if you fill our
form again. Thanks!
Regards,
Mako
(On behalf of Dharma, Mika, Jonathan, Tommy, Ben, Emilia, and all the
CDSW mentors.)
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Benjamin Mako Hill
https://mako.cc/academic/
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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Benjamin Mako Hill
https://mako.cc/academic/
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto