Greetings!
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: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 20:05:33 -0700
From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <makohill(a)uw.edu>
To: cdsw-announce(a)uw.edu
Subject: [cdsw-announce] Community Data Science Workshops
Message-ID: <20160326030533.GT8536(a)yukidoke.org>
Greetings!
[ Please feel free to forward this on to any other people or lists you
think might be interested! ]
By popular demand, I am helping organize another round of the
Community Data Science Workshops. The workshop series consists of one
Friday evening and three Saturday sessions in April and May. 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, free and open source software, Twitter,
civic media, etc. The Spring 2016 series will be an updated version of
workshops we ran four times in 2014 and 2015.
The workshops are for people with no previous programming experience
and, thanks to sponsorship from eScience and the Department of
Communication, 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_2016
If you are interested in participating, please fill out our
registration at the link above before Saturday April 2. 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 Jonathan, Tommy, Dharma, Ben, Mika, and all the CDSW
mentors.)
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