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@uw.edu To: cdsw-announce@uw.edu Subject: Community Data Science Workshops Message-ID: 20200107081634.g7p7yvdehhx4ewvn@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.)