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@uw.edu To: cdsw-announce@uw.edu Subject: [cdsw-announce] Community Data Science Workshops Message-ID: 20160326030533.GT8536@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.)