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Over three weekends in Spring 2014, a group of volunteers organized the [[Community Data Science Workshops]] (CDSW) — a series of four sessions designed to introduce some of the basic tools of programming and analysis of data from online communities to absolute beginners. The CDSW were held between April 4th and May 31st in 2014 at the University of Washington in Seattle. ▼
▲Over three weekends in Spring 2014, a group of volunteers organized the [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)]] (CDSW) —
This page hosts reflections on organization and curriculum and is written for anybody interested in organizing their own CDSW — including the authors!
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In general, the mentors and students suggested that the workshops were a huge success. Students suggested that learned an enormous amount and benefited enormously. Mentors were also generally very excited about running similar projects in the future. That said, we all felt there were many ways to improve on the sessions which are detailed below.
If you have any questions or issues, you can contact [[Benjamin Mako Hill]] directly or can email the whole group of mentors at cdsw-sp2014-mentors@uw.edu.
== Structure ==
The [[
* '''Session 0 (Friday April 4th)''': [[
* '''Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)''': [[
* '''Session 2 (Saturday May 3rd)''': [[
* '''Session 3 (Saturday May 31st)''': [[
Our organization and the curriculum for Sessions 0 and 1 were borrowed from the [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/ Boston Python Workshop] (BPW): Session 0 was a three hour evening session to install software. The other sessions were all day-long session (10am to 4pm) sessions broken up into the following schedule:
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